This are the places where thousands of species of pollinators can breed and multiply. The same that will play a main role in crop production in all the farms around in a radius of several Km
Honey bees are good pollinators. The much smaller wild bees aren't just good, they are fantastic pollinators of lots of crops that honey bees ignore
Livestock farming is ruining the soil, the water, a major producer of CO2, the main producer of Methane, and the root cause for the burning of the rainforest.
Palm Oil plants are only 12% of those 28%.
That means at least 80% is burned for Livestock or livestock feed. Since part of the palm oil and other plant produce is also used for livestock feed that number probably closer to 85%.
See: https://www.fern.org/fileadmin/uploads/fern/Documents/Fern%2...
A major issue with the less-meat-more-veggies idea is glyphosate, though, as produce treated with it is not vegan: glyphosate mixtures typically contain tallow from animal fat.
Crop farming is ruining the soil way faster than grazing livestock. Livestock grazing the land is a lot closer to how the land was before we came along than a rainforest.
But what is all that crop used for?
Livestock.
> Livestock grazing the land is a lot closer to how the land was before we came along than a rainforest.
Freudian slip?