My comments on the below article in which they want us to use "sustainable Palm Oil" by We need to stop using palm oil completely as there is no guarantee that so called sustainable plantations owned by large companies such as Unilever who make Dove and Lux soaps have any interest in caring for the forest and its wildlife when they need cheap oil and labour to make big $$$'s. The soil after these plantations are finished (20 to 50 years) is no longer useable because of pesticides etc... how is this sustainable??? and the burning of the peat wetlands still occurs when "creating" a sustainable plantation which adds to the co2 emissions. Orangutans that wander onto palm plantations are seen as pests and shot!
Numbers of critically endangered Sumatran orangutan decline by a shocking 80% in Tripa peat swamp forest of Aceh province as illegal poaching, logging and deliberate fires to clear tracts for palm oil plantations take its toll on the species.
We need Australia importing only 100% certified sustainable palm oil by 2015.
Recommended: View Full Gallery via The Guardian >http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2013/feb/14/sumatran-orangutan-tripa-indonesia-deforestation
Save Tripa Petition > http://www.change.org/saveTripa2
Image: Paul Hilton Photography / Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) / YEL
Numbers of critically endangered Sumatran orangutan decline by a shocking 80% in Tripa peat swamp forest of Aceh province as illegal poaching, logging and deliberate fires to clear tracts for palm oil plantations take its toll on the species.
We need Australia importing only 100% certified sustainable palm oil by 2015.
Recommended: View Full Gallery via The Guardian >http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2013/feb/14/sumatran-orangutan-tripa-indonesia-deforestation
Save Tripa Petition > http://www.change.org/saveTripa2
Image: Paul Hilton Photography / Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) / YEL
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