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Palm Oil and Orangutans

I just got back from 5 mo of volunteering in Indonesia with the Sumatran Orangutan Society and the problem with palm oil is complex but urgently in need of a solution if orangutans are to survive the next decade. I disagree that a ban on palm oil is needed as this will affect the workers in the field drastically. We need a consumer campaign to alert people to the number of products that contain palm oil and then a followup campaign to accept only palm oil sustainably grown.Body Shop by the way switched to using Columbian sustainably produced palm oil.
The corruption in Indonesia will also need to be solved before any lasting bans on forest destruction work & who really knows how to do that? Another solution is eco-tourism development as Indonesia has the highest number of endangered species. Currently it only cost $2 to go see semi-wild rehabilitated orangutans in the wild...lots of room for development to support local people. Interested in a list of products that contain palm oil? Got to ran.org.On Indonesian province puts moratorium on rainforest destruction posted 1 year, 3 months ago 7 Responses