Orangutans are considered as pests by the palm oil - TopicsExpress



          

Orangutans are considered as pests by the palm oil industry Orangutans are some of our closest relatives, sharing approximately 97% of their DNA with humans. Orangutan means Person of the jungle in the Indonesian language. It is estimated that 6 to 12 of these jungle people are killed each day for palm oil. These gentle creatures are either killed in the deforestation process, when they wonder into a palm oil plantation looking for food, or in the illegal pet trade after theyve been captured and kept as pets in extremely poor conditions and provided with extremely poor nutrition. By purchasing products that contain crude palm oil, you are helping destroy ancient, pristine rainforest, wipe out species like the orangutan, and create a large-scale ecological disaster. Think of the consequences next time you do your weekly shopping; the consequences not only for orangutans and other animals, but for us as the human race; for we cannot survive without the rainforests either. We have a choice, orangutans do not.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 09:46:30 +0000

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