Rubber planting and deforestation

Douglas Sheil^{1

2}, Adrià Descals³, Erik Meijaard⁴, David Gaveau^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Forest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Douglas.Sheil@wur.nl.
² Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia. Douglas.Sheil@wur.nl.
³ Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Borneo Futures, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.
⁵ The TreeMap, Martel, France.
⁶ Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development, Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Comment

Douglas Sheil et al. Nature. 2025 Aug.

. 2025 Aug;644(8076):E20-E22.

doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-08848-9. Epub 2025 Aug 13.

Douglas Sheil^{1

2}, Adrià Descals³, Erik Meijaard⁴, David Gaveau^{5

6}

¹ Forest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Douglas.Sheil@wur.nl.
² Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia. Douglas.Sheil@wur.nl.
³ Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Borneo Futures, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.
⁵ The TreeMap, Martel, France.
⁶ Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development, Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

High-resolution maps show that rubber causes substantial deforestation.
Wang Y, Hollingsworth PM, Zhai D, West CD, Green JMH, Chen H, Hurni K, Su Y, Warren-Thomas E, Xu J, Ahrends A. Wang Y, et al. Nature. 2023 Nov;623(7986):340-346. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06642-z. Epub 2023 Oct 18. Nature. 2023. PMID: 37853124 Free PMC article.

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