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The orangutan could be extinct within 12 years and human greed is to blame. Its natural habitat is rapidly disappearing because of the spread of plantations devoted to producing palm oil - a cheap ingredient found in hundreds of products sold in British supermarkets. Our weekly shop in the West is having a catastrophic impact on two of the world's most fascinating species.
Check out the video evidence at www.films4.org/palmoil
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Biofuels-postcard.pdf (PDF File - 40Kb)
 Sinian Orangutan Portraits - Bobby
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 Palm oil harvest, Sabah, Malaysia - PhotoIanRedmond.co.uk
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Archive of scientific articles: Click here to download and read Palm Oil Working Group related articles.
The following organisations are involved in the Palm Oil Working Group.
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Sumatran Orangutan Society
Palm Oil Working Group Secretariat Helen Buckland 17c Between Towns Road
Oxford
OX4 3LX Phone: +44 (0)1865 712403 |
Web (en): www.orangutans-sos.org Email: info@orangutans-sos.org |
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Born Free Foundation Will Travers CEO 3 Grove House
Foundry Lane
Horsham
West Sussex
RH13 5PL Phone: +44 (0)1403 240 170 Fax: +44 (0)1403 327 838 |
Web (en): www.bornfree.org.uk Email: wildlife@bornfree.org.uk |
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Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK (BOS UK) Michelle Desilets 8 Temple Square
Aylesbury
Bucks
HP20 2QH
UK
Phone: 08456 521528 |
Web (en): www.savetheorangutan.org.uk Email: info@savetheorangutan.co.uk |
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Cockroach Productions Nick Lyon & Evie Wright The Old Tannery
Staplegrove
Taunton
Somerset TA2 6SP
www.films4.org
http://indonesiangibbons.blogspot.com/ Phone: 07850 921 207 & 208 |
Web (en): www.cockroach.org.uk Email: info@cockroach.org.uk |
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Friends of the Earth 26-28 Underwood Street
London
N1 7JQ Phone: +44 (0)20 7490 1555 Fax: +44 (0)20 7490 0881 |
Web (en): www.foe.co.uk Email: info@foe.co.uk |
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Orangutan Foundation UK Ashley Leiman 7 Kent Terrace
London
NW1 4RP
UK Phone: +44 (0)207 724 2912 Fax: +44 (0)207 706 2613 |
Web (en): www.orangutan.org.uk Email: info@orangutan.org.uk |
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WWF-UK Christian Thompson Panda House
Catteshall Lane
Godalming
Surrey
GU7 1XR Phone: +44 (0)1483 426444 Fax: +44 (0)1483 426409 |
Web (en): www.wwf-uk.org |
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