Palm oil

Palm oil is used as a bio fuel which suggests renewable energy. Don't drop off in hearing those words! They aren't as good as they look like.

Indonesia and Malaysia provide 83 per cent of palm oil, and these countries represent just as well the Orangutan's living place. Accordind to WWF, there are 11 milion hectars of oil palm plantations on earth including 6 milion hectars in Indonesia. The consequence of the palm oil's production is destruction of forests, forest fires and obviously the Orangutan's disappearance. This bio fuel leads to an ecological desaster because the palm oil replaces little by little the forest where fauna and flora is destroyed. The orangutan fleeing fires are found in a appaling state (suffering from burn, dehydration, respiratory disease and they have sometimes some injuries inflected by villagers.)

Palm oil is in everyday use into, for example, household products, cosmetics or food. Take a look in your closet! What is more, palm oil gives apparently heart disease...so if you wouldn't stop palm oil for saving orangutan, stop if for yourself!

sources: http://redapes.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/bospalm_oil_report.pdf -

becareful you can view some shocking pictures, so i suggest you to read only the first page