Biofuel Rules Could Evict Millions from Their Land, Says Oxfam. By Charles Clover, London Daily Telegraph, April 15, 2008. "Millions of people face eviction from their land to satisfy demand unleashed by new [biofuel] rules... Oxfam, has warned that 60 million people in Asia, Africa and South America are threatened with possible eviction to make way for 'green' fuel plantations, whether palm oil, soya or sugar cane. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) accuses the government today of overlooking the likely impact on endangered species of biofuels production, which is costing the taxpayer £500 million in subsidies. The RSPB has produced a report [PDF 24 pp] saying that the Alagoas curassow, a large black bird once found in the Atlantic forest of north-eastern Brazil was the first species to be presumed extinct because of land clearance for sugar cane plantations."
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