Actor Harrison Ford travels to Indonesia to learn why demand for palm oil in everyday products at the grocery store is driving massive deforestation. To learn more and take action, go to: https ...
On top of this, her ministry is also facing the challenge of pushing the percentage of Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certified producers from the current 36% to the targeted 100%.] Earlier this month, Teresa Kok made headlines when she criticised the Singapore Zoo for relating Orang Utans’ plight to the palm oil industry.
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In this Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017 photo, a tranquilized male orangutan holds on to a tree as it's being rescued from a swath of forest located too close to a palm oil plantation at Tripa peat swamp ...
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Well, here’s a paradox: Palm oil plantations are notorious for destroying orangutan habitat on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra and pushing the animals to extinction. But the cooperation of the palm oil industry may be needed if there’s hope to prevent the same thing from happening to other great ape species, according to a new report.
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So one of the problems is the forest is cut down for oil palm, or palm oil plantations, and that takes away the home from the orangutans and other species as well. There's a great risk they're ...
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But the demand for palm oil comes at a high price.Palm oil production is responsible for terrible human rights violations as corporations often forcefully remove Indigenous Peoples and rural communities from their lands in order to expand their palm oil plantations.
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2020-03-29· Palm oil is literally everywhere in our foods, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuels. It’s a source of huge profits for multinational corporations, while at the same time destroying the livelihoods of smallholders. Displacement of indigenous peoples, deforestation and loss of biodiversity are all consequences of our palm oil consumption.
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Palm oil is used in food, cosmetics, cleaning products and biofuel, and only grows in the biodiversity-rich tropics. Palm oil is important for global food security and economic development. Palm oil production increased 15-fold between 1980 and 2014 and will likely increase further.
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2016-04-25· The sumatran-orangutan-conservation-programme fights to protect the apes. However, to prevent the orangutans’ extinction, we all must join this fight and avoid palm oil. Please make an informed
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2012-09-05· "By purchasing products that contain crude palm oil, you are helping destroy ancient, pristine rainforest, wipe out species like the orangutan, and create a large-scale ecological disaster.
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Palm oil is the leading cause of orangutan extinction. It’s in 50% of all household and food products sold in the West. It’s an ingredient in shampoo, toothpaste, detergent, frozen microwave dinners, cookies, peanut butter, lotion, makeup and much more!
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2017-08-27· In this Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017 photo, a tranquilized male orangutan holds on to a tree as it's being rescued from a swath of forest located too close to a palm oil plantation at Tripa peat swamp
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Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans despite multinationals’ promises Chris Packham Some of the world’s biggest companies are failing in their pledge to stop deforestation by 2020.
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In the last 20 years, over 3.5 million hectares of Indonesian and Malaysian forest have been destroyed to make way for palm oil. Almost 80% of orangutan habitat has disappeared in the last 20 years. We are losing over 6,000 orangutans a year. There are now only 400 Sumatran tigers left in the world. We must stop this devastation in its tracks
Get PriceAn orangutan holds on the branch of a tree before being rescued and relocated from at a swath of destructed forest near a palm oil plantation at Tripa peat swamp in Aceh province, Indonesia on
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Palm Oil Kills Orangutans, but Can the Industry Help Save the Great Apes? As palm oil plantations spread to Africa, a new report from the United Nations says palm oil is
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The main threat to the survival of orangutan populations in the wild is the massive expansion of palm oil plantations in Borneo and Sumatra. Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world, having even surpassed soya in terms of usage.
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The harvesting of palm oil, which is used in household and beauty items, has led to the destruction of the orangutan habitat, Askew said.Efforts are being made to certify palm oil that's made
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Palm oil continues to kill orangutans by causing mass deforestation and hunting of the population. In Borneo the number’s are 50% less than they were in 19999 and will halve again in the next 35 years as more forest is cut down for paper and palm oil production according to a study by the Max Planck Instiute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
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But these forests are home to some of the most threatened species in the world, including the orangutan. "Orangutans are a lowland species on Bornean Sumatra and that's where palm oil
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2016-04-25· Every day, more and more of the rainforest is being destroyed on Sumatra mainly for palmoil plantations! Who pays the price? The orangutans. They loose their
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2013-07-20· "Palm oil cultivation does not threaten orangutan populations in Malaysia," is a familiar refrain, and they're right to a certain extent. The historical population of orangutans in East Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah have declined so much in the past few decades that you can't really kill any more orangutans in Malaysia unless you wipe out the last bits of their wild habitat.
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2017-08-28· Palm Oil Kills Orangutans in Indonesia Peat Swamp. By. Associated Press August 28, 2017 10:22 am. Facebook. Twitter. LINE. WhatsApp. Pinterest. ReddIt . VK. A veterinarian of Sumatran Orangutan
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2025-12-16· Orangutans are still being hunted as intruders on palm oil plantations, despite protective regulations being in place since 1985. An estimated 104,700 orangutans survive in Borneo today, down from a population of 230,000 in 2007. In the last 20 years, palm oil producers have slashed orangutan habitat in Indonesia and Malaysia by more than 80
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2015-03-11· As Palm Oil Farms Expand, It's A Race To Save Indonesia's Orangutans : Parallels Demand for palm oil is destroying the habitat of endangered Sumatran orangutans. One group is working to rescue
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What is The Orangutan Project's position on palm oil and the RSPO? The RSPO, in part, calls palm oil sustainable if produced from land cleared before 2005. However this still could of been orangutan habitat, killing orangutans. TOP therefore has a firmer approach and will not support palm oil that comes from the islands of Borneo or Sumatra. We
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2009-03-05· The palm oil and timber industries are guilty of truly horrific ecological atrocities, one of which is the systematic genocide of orangutans. When the forest is cleared, adult orangutans are generally shot on sight. In the absence of bullets they are beaten, burned, tortured, mutilated and often eaten as bushmeat. Babies are literally torn off
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Palm oil/orangutans: swing producers Related news. Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans despite multinationals’ promises The Guardian. Earth,Asia,Sumatra,Papua ,
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Quote Taken from COP (Centre For Orangutan Protection) "Orangutans’ poaching is done deliberately as a policy made by palm oil corporations. Therefore they hire local people as pest busters, who serve the corporation with killing any wild animals, including orangutans, which spoil palm oil
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2009-09-24· Palm oil both a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra . by Rhett A. Butler on 24 September 2009 . An interview about orangutan conservation and the complexities of palm
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Orangutans are a keystone species in Indonesia's ecosystems. Orangutans maintain the health of the ecosystem and many organisms depend on them. Palm oil production kills 1,000 to 5,000 orangutans annually. Without the presence of orangutans, the entire ecosystem could possibly collapse.
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Get PriceWhy is the Bornean Orangutan Endangered? The main reason is to farm palm oil. Palm oil is one of the most commonly used vegetable oils on the planet. It is in many packaged foods, baked goods
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JAKARTA, Aug 10 2012 (IPS) When four men were sentenced to eight months in jail in March for the ‘murder’ of orangutans, it was the first time that people associated with Indonesia’s booming palm oil industry were convicted for killing man’s close relations in the primate family. Conservationists were not happy with the ‘light’ sentences handed down by the court in Kutai
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Palm oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil in the world. It is found in a wide variety of products ranging from vitamins to chocolate, bread, laundry detergent and even biofuel. The oil is popular because it has an exceptionally high melting point and contains primarily saturated fats. The former allows the oil to maintain a semi-solid consistency at room temperature making it easy to
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Found this at our Spar (Spargs) in East London. Not sure what "stabiliser" they have used.. if Palm oil, it would not separate, as using Palm oil stops the oil separation that happens with peanut butter, this one does separate, so not only is it palm free, but contains Moringa.
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2020-03-29· Palm oil is literally everywhere in our foods, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuels. It’s a source of huge profits for multinational corporations, while at the same time destroying the livelihoods of smallholders. Displacement of indigenous peoples, deforestation and loss of biodiversity are all consequences of our palm oil consumption.
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