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- tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
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- The movement is fighting for the conservation of threatened groves of babassu palm.
- Mrs. Lopes rallied the women to stand in the path of a bulldozer bearing down on their babassu palm forest. At Brazil's Museum of the Person, 10,000 Voices Tell a Nation's Story
- People and the Palm Forest: Biology and utilization of babassu palms in Maranhão, Brazil. Maranhão Babaçu forests
- The rubs harness the soothing properties of babassu oil (harvested from the Amazonian babassu palm) and essential oils.
- In the northeastern region of Brazil, near the Amazon, indigenous women harvest nuts from babassu palms.
- The babassu palm, which grows in the Brazilian Amazon, is harvested sustainably to provide a natural oil for use in Aveda hair conditioners and as a cleansing ingredient in shampoos.
- Virgin Atlantic in 2008 became the first airline to fly with biofuel—in that instance derived from coconut and babassu palm oil that was used in a 20% mix in one of the Boeing 747's four fuel tanks. Virgin Australia Researching Eucalyptus Leaves As Jet Fuel
- Some 400,000 women and their families living on the eastern edge of the Amazon jungle depend on the babassu palm (Orbignya phalerata) for a livelihood.
- Since then, the MIQCB has successfully pushed for passage of several municipal laws that have guaranteed the quebradeiras access to babassu palm trees on both public and privately-owned land.