The Anthropologist Who Has Spent 50 Years Protecting--and Learning From--Orangutans

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3. This is heartbreaking.

I've read about the orangutans' plight for yrs and have tried to cut my palm oil consumption but it difficult to eliminate because you'll find it in so many processed foods and products.
At least I read labels and try.

Destroying the rainforest is destroying these beautiful, peaceful, intelligent primates. And the products we consume and use is doing it.

It's just simple: humans are destroying wild spieces on the planet. We are mostly oblivious to this and worse, we are uncaring. Just read the vicious attacks on anyone saying we're over-populating the planet.

Biruté Mary Galdikas is a heroine.


Harvesting Palm Oil is Destroying the Rainforests - Scientific American

Today palm oil production is the largest cause of deforestation in Indonesia and other equatorial countries with dwindling expanses of tropical rainforest.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/harvesting-palm-oil-and-rainforests/