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… local needs and technical challenges (Marghescu 2001). Oil-palm plantation managers along the Kinabatangan River in … regular flooding prevented them from establishing an oil-palm crop. In collaboration with WWF and local … and expansion of housing settlements; and • industrial pollution of rivers. Behind each of these direct causes is a …

… and environ- mental lawyers, as has nature conservation, pollution control and abatement, and land use. Certainly … A third group of problems are those associated with pollution and misuse of the resources of land, air and water. … Fernandez, Sumiko Tan, 1997. 41 petro-chemical industries, oil refineries, gas, electrical and electronic industries as …

… Other threats are reported too: population pressures, pollution, climate change, ethnic tensions, loss of cultural … exacerbated by the opportunities offered by the booming oil exploitation further down the river, a group of … their efforts to protect their rain forest home from the oil industry, mining companies, and colonists. Cofan are …