EcoInternet and Rainforest Rescue have been campaigning against the spread of industrial, monoculture oil palm plantations in primary rainforests for years, with some success, but the threat keeps on escalating. This is largely due to the extent to which oil palm has emerged as a cheap food ingredient [ark] in industrial nations. This is one manner where each of our behaviors are impacting rainforests and ultimately climate [ark] and biodiversity.
Palm oil [search] is very likely to be found in your margarine, bread, biscuits and candy bars — frequently listed as “vegetable oil” in the ingredients. Thirty square miles of carbon and biodiversity rich habitat are being cleared a day to provide you these products, largely in Malaysia and Indonesia, but increasingly threatening primary forests wherever they are found, including in the Amazon.
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