OPINION: Coconut oil production threatens five times more species than palm oil
9 Jul 2020
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By professor ERIK MEIJAARD University of Kent
BORN IN THE NETHERLANDS and brought up in Germany, it wasn’t until I was 21 that I met my first coconut.
It was on a beach in Thailand where I ended up during a one-year sojourn away from home, trying to grow up.
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