Palm oil is one of the most widely used agricultural products in theworld, with demand projected to increase in the future (Corley, 2009;Koh and Wilcove, 2008; Vijay et al., 2016). An estimate by Koh andWilcove (2008) indicated that of all oil palm expansion between 1990and 2005 in Malaysia, at least 50% has come at the expense of naturalrainforest, of which the natural vegetation is predominantly peat