Comments on: Palm oil: it’s covered in greenwash http://forest4climate.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/palm-oil-its-covered-in-greenwash/ Join the Greenpeace ship Esperanza as she travels around Indonesia to show why the remaining forest areas must be saved to tackle climate change, and how it can be done Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:55:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mrs. Gillian Jackson http://forest4climate.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/palm-oil-its-covered-in-greenwash/#comment-184 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:12:48 +0000 http://forest4climate.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-184 Having seen the programme on tv about the plight of the orangutans I was horrified at their treament. I know many felt as I did as a lot of money was raised for their cause as a result of the programme. The destruction of areas so important for the climate is puting all our lives in jeopardy. Those destroying the landscape and its pivotal role in our world should be taken to court and imprisoned for the destruction they are causing.Why must the whole planet suffer so that those who want to get rich quick with no thought for what they are doing MUST be made to see the destruction they loading us with.Caring for the environment and the creatures in our world are too precious for us to sit and do nothing about. Biofuels will be unsuccessful according to latest reports. We should be growing wheat not GM crops which do harm and potentially make the poorest of the world’s farmers even poorer as they would have to buy the seeds yearly, benifiting only those who cause the GM seeds to exist.
I want my grandchildren to inherit a planet as it was designed to be not one human vandals have ruined.God help us as we certainly can do nothing without his help.

]]> By: Orangutan Outreach http://forest4climate.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/palm-oil-its-covered-in-greenwash/#comment-62 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:03:29 +0000 http://forest4climate.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-62 Palm oil is a silent killer. In order to cultivate it, corporations are clearcutting old growth forests and converting the land into industrial plantations on a horrific scale. Hundreds of thousands of square acres of pristine rainforest in Indonesia and Malaysia have already been destroyed– and every living creature in these forests has been systematically killed in the process.

One of the biggest victims of the palm oil industry is the orangutan. The forests of Borneo and Sumatra are the only place where they live, and the cultivation of palm oil has directly led to the brutal deaths of thousands of individuals as the industry expanded over the last decade.

When rainforest is cleared, adult orangutans are usually shot on sight. These peaceful sentient beings are often beaten, burned, mutilated and tortured. And they are often eaten. Babies are torn off their dying mothers and sold on the black market as illegal pets to rich families who see them as status symbols of their wealth and power.

Some of the luckier orangutans are confiscated and brought to sanctuaries such as the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Center, which is now home to approximately 700 orphaned and displaced orangutans– many as young as a few weeks old. The Center is run by Lone Droscher Nielsen and the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, and is featured on Animal Planet’s series ‘Orangutan Island’.

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

Thanks for your time and keep up the great work!

Richard Zimmerman
Director, Orangutan Outreach
http://redapes.org
Reach out and save the orangutans!
Facebook Cause: http://causes.com/redapes

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