Hiya again,
today I'm happy to forward a press release about the Observer Food Monthly award which this month went to Friends of the Earth and Ape Alliance for their palm oil campaign. Read on...
Press Release
Friends of the Earth and Ape Alliance's palm oil campaign wins Observer Food Monthly award
Mar 22
Friends of the Earth and Ape Alliance have won an Observer Food Monthly (OFM) Award for their campaign to help stop the trade in palm oil from driving the orang-utan towards extinction. The campaign was launched in 2005 in partnership with the Ape Alliance which includes Orangutan Foundation, Sumatran Orangutan Society and the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.
Palm oil is found in one in ten products on the supermarket shelves including bread, crisps, margarine and cereals to lipstick and soap. The clearance of large tracts of rainforest in Malaysia and Indonesia for palm oil plantations is the primary cause of the orang-utan's decline.
[contd. at http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/friends_of_the_earth_and_a_22032007.html ]
Personally, I'd like to add that it is not only in South East Asia that virgin forests are threatened by clearcutting to plant oil palms (palma africana) or other cash crops to feed Western Europe's and North America's greedy cars and stomachs. In Colombia, thousands of people have already been 'cleared' off their lands or are being threatened with expulsion for exactly the same reason. See my blog in Spanish: http://ddhhencolombia.blogspot.com
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