Save Orangutans
Off shoot project sponsored by With Compassion & Soul which focuses on Orangutans and the Palm Oil Problem.
The single greatest threat facing orangutans today is the rapidly expanding palm oil trade. Rainforests are being cleared at the rate of 300 football fields per hour to make way for oil palm plantations.While there are millions of hectares of degraded land that could be used for plantations, many oil palm companies choose to instead use rainforest land to gain additional profits by logging the timber first. Palm oil companies also frequently use uncontrolled burning to clear the land, resulting in thousands of orangutans being burned to death. Those that survive have nowhere to live and nothing left to eat and are murdered when they wander onto palm oil plantations and their babies stolen.
by: Glenn Alderson01-11-2011
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save orangutansPopulation of orangutans in the world close to extinction, Let love and protect them together.1 supporters -
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SALA Photographic Exhibition: Dark Secrets of the Rainforest~SALA Photographic Exhibition: Dark Secrets of the Rainforest~ On my recent trip to Kalimantan I met the team from the Centre For Orangutan Protection. Hardi & his staff do an amazing job. I cant wait to share with everybody their story....Thanks guys for showing me the full story of palm oil & these amazing orangutans.3 supporters