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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

At least 28 species were new to science. We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy. Ocho Sur’s Tibecocha oil palm plantation, Ucayali, Peru.