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Explore how consumer brands relate to deforestation through the palm oil mills that they source from.
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About PalmWatch
PalmWatch is an open-access tool using rigorous data science and advanced, low-cost data visualization approaches to create a uniquely comprehensive and detailed picture of global palm oil supply chains. PalmWatch links 15 major users of palm oil, such as Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever, to the ground-level impacts of their palm oil consumption, including hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of deforestation.
PalmWatch scrapes information from across the web, including corporate disclosures and satellite imagery, to link consumer brands to the palm oil mills where the oil they use is processed, and then to cultivation areas those mills are likely sourcing from.
Linking brands to specific palm oil cultivation areas means those brands can be more easily held accountable for their contributions to the ground-level impacts of oil palm cultivation, including deforestation, labor violations and other social and environmental harms.
PalmWatch was developed by Inclusive Development International and the University of Chicago Data Science Institute as a free and open-source data project, with support from the 11th Hour Project, Bread for the World and Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southeast Asia Regional Office.
Explore Supply Chains
Browse the full mill directory or dive into parent companies and corporate groups to trace supply chain relationships.
Explore by Country
Compare deforestation trends, mill counts, and forest loss across palm oil producing countries.
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This map shows palm oil mill catchment areas and the tree cover loss within them. Colors indicate cumulative forest loss since 2001. Click on any mill area to open its detail page.
Use the layer control to switch between years of tree loss data and deforestation scores (past, current, and projected). Learn more about our methodology.
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Search for a province, town, or address using the search box. Zoom with scroll or the navigation buttons. Hover (or tap) a mill area for a quick summary, and click (or tap) to open the full mill detail page.