I wonder why it was not mentioned that small and large NGOs, such as WWF and Oxfam International, are also (founding) members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and sit on its executive board?
Sure the RSPO as a multi-stakeholder organisation must be doing something more than just ‘cook the climate’, I would say just from that. You are not doing your readers a service by withholding such essential facts. Any debate, even on palm oil, should be upfront.
The palm oil industry is guilty of the most heinous ecological atrocities imaginable, including the systematic genocide of orangutans. The forests of Borneo and Sumatra are the only place where these gentle, intelligent creatures live, and the cultivation of palm oil has directly led to the brutal deaths of thousands of individuals as the industry has expanded into previously undisturbed areas of rainforest.
When the forest is cleared, adult orangutans are typically shot on sight. These peaceful, sentient beings are beaten, burned, mutilated, tortured and often eaten. Babies are torn off their dying mothers so they can be sold on the black market as illegal pets to wealthy families who see them as status symbols of their own power and prestige. This has been documented time and again.
Some of the luckier orangutans are confiscated and brought to sanctuaries such as the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue Center, which is home to around 650 orphaned and displaced orangutans in Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Many of these orangutans are only several weeks old when they arrive, and all of them are psychologically traumatized and desperate for their mothers– who were slaughtered right before their eyes.
To learn more about the crisis facing wild orangutans because of palm oil and see how YOU can help protect them, please visit the Orangutan Outreach website: http://redapes.org
Thank you for your time!
Richard Zimmerman
Director, Orangutan Outreach
Reach out and save the orangutans!
Adopt an orangutan today!
No wonder Indonesia is the country with fastest rate of deforestation.. and also I had no idea that companies like Unilever and Nestle were involved.
I wonder why it was not mentioned that small and large NGOs, such as WWF and Oxfam International, are also (founding) members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and sit on its executive board?
Sure the RSPO as a multi-stakeholder organisation must be doing something more than just ‘cook the climate’, I would say just from that. You are not doing your readers a service by withholding such essential facts. Any debate, even on palm oil, should be upfront.
The palm oil industry is guilty of the most heinous ecological atrocities imaginable, including the systematic genocide of orangutans. The forests of Borneo and Sumatra are the only place where these gentle, intelligent creatures live, and the cultivation of palm oil has directly led to the brutal deaths of thousands of individuals as the industry has expanded into previously undisturbed areas of rainforest.
When the forest is cleared, adult orangutans are typically shot on sight. These peaceful, sentient beings are beaten, burned, mutilated, tortured and often eaten. Babies are torn off their dying mothers so they can be sold on the black market as illegal pets to wealthy families who see them as status symbols of their own power and prestige. This has been documented time and again.
Some of the luckier orangutans are confiscated and brought to sanctuaries such as the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue Center, which is home to around 650 orphaned and displaced orangutans in Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Many of these orangutans are only several weeks old when they arrive, and all of them are psychologically traumatized and desperate for their mothers– who were slaughtered right before their eyes.
To learn more about the crisis facing wild orangutans because of palm oil and see how YOU can help protect them, please visit the Orangutan Outreach website: http://redapes.org
Thank you for your time!
Richard Zimmerman
Director, Orangutan Outreach
Reach out and save the orangutans!
Adopt an orangutan today!
If we all start to boycott companies like Unilever, Nestle ect. Then I believe it could start to change things. No company wants negative press.
It such a nice post to aware the peoples about deforestation which is very important for our environment.