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This indirect use of palm oil is often overlooked in the zero-deforestation accounting process, despite its growing use, according to a report by U.S.-based advocacy group Rainforest Action Network (RAN). The report found that palm oil-based animal feed is now the single largest palm oil product category imported by the U.S., accounting for 36% of all palm oil imports into the country by weight.

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.Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds

An Australian review of existing studies has argued that “the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is generally recognised”.

The carbon footprint of pets is also significant. A 2020 study found the dry pet food industry had an environmental footprint of around twice the land area of the UK, with greenhouse gas emissions – 56 to 151 Mt CO2 – equivalent to the 60th highest-emitting country.

Let alone in Austrailia the enormous death rate from koalas from dogs.

Owning other beings leads to widespread problems. Imagine that.

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While bonobos (Pan paniscus) produce grunts, peeps, whistles and hoots, they also combine these calls to create new meanings, researchers found, suggesting they may share a trait once deemed uniquely human: a complex language structure called nontrivial compositionality.

The researchers say these findings may be a clue toward how early human language began to develop. “One interpretation of the data could be that nontrivial compositionality can be traced as far back as the last common ancestor of bonobos and humans, 7 million to 13 million years ago,” the authors write.

It could also mean that many more forms of life communicate in this way but have not been studied before.

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