Since When Is Starving Orangutans "Sustainable"?

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Many consumers these days purposefully seek out food made with sustainable palm oil. But some companies that claim to be "sustainable" are still participating in wide-ranging orangutan habitat destruction.

Save Orangutans -- Insist on REAL Sustainable Palm Oil!

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Dear Indra,

In Borneo, orangutans are in trouble. Their rainforest homes are being destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, leaving them homeless and starving. Recently in one region, reporters for the Digital Journal reported seeing just one orangutan sitting, confused and frightened, in the single tree remaining of the grove he used to call home. Below him, a mother orangutan with a baby on her back crawled helplessly through the bulldozed stumps, looking in vain for shelter for her child.

It's bad enough that this rampant destruction is continuing largely unchecked. Worse still, investigators have discovered that several companies who claim to produce "sustainable" palm oil are participating in these rainforest clearings, effectively dooming the orangutans who used to live there.

Members of The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) pledged to only use palm oil that did not irrevocably harm the environment. But some of those companies are reportedly reneging on that promise.

Consumers must be able to trust that their "sustainable " palm oil did not come from the deaths of hundreds of orangutans and other endangered species. Tell all of the member companies of RSPO that clear-cutting wide swathes of rainforest isn't "sustainable" in the slightest.