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Right now, you
and I are killing the last endangered orangutans in Borneo.
How? Through the very foods that we eat. Caught
between their homes and the booming palm oil industry,
orangutans are being burnt to death and starved as
the forests where they live are razed to the ground. All this
is done so farmers can make room for thousands of
miles and miles and miles of oil palm trees — in
order to stock our grocery shelves and feed our cravings.
Palm oil is in
approximately half of all products sold in
supermarkets. It's in everything from cooking oils
and margarine, to pizza and ice cream, to even soap. It's also
increasingly being used as a supposedly "eco-friendly"
alternative to fossil fuels — but there is nothing
eco-friendly about it. In fact, every time a farmer sets fire
to the rainforest and underlying peatlands in Borneo,
it destroys one of the world's largest natural carbon
sinks, while also murdering some of our closest
genetic cousins. Sign the petition to tell government officials
to crack down on palm oil fires, and save the orangutans
before it's too late!
Thank you for all that you do,
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Miranda
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The Care2 Petitions Team |
P.S. Bornean
organutans can't be found anywhere else on Earth — and pretty
soon, we might not be able to find them there, either. Sign the petition to demand that the governments
of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei work together to save these
endangered orangutans! |
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