Chinese Palm Oil Plantations Are Destroying the Home of Africa’s Great Apes

Palm oil plantations have already destroyed huge swaths of orangutan habitat in Indonesia. Now the same thing is happening in Africa, where large-scale industrial plantations threaten chimpanzees, gorillas, and mandrills, among other species. According to a new report from Greenpeace Africa, rubber and palm oil plantations have grown rapidly in southern Cameroon since the beginning…