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Orangutans are endangered species, Sumatran Orangutans critically so. Some conservationists fear that if their decline continues unchecked they could be all but extinct within 12 years. Orangutan 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.
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Palm Oil Could Scuttle Forest Carbon Plan: Experts
Date: 01-Jun-09
Country: INDONESIA
Author: Sunanda Creagh
NUSA DUA - Carbon credits derived from a fledgling forest conservation scheme for developing nations will struggle to compete with palm oil as an investment, industry advisers and conservationists said on Friday.
http://planetark.org/wen/53165 01/06/2009
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Did Malaysia cancel plans for palm oil development in the Amazon?
The Malaysian government's federal land agency (FELDA) is now denying its well-documented plan to develop oil palm plantations in the Amazon rainforest, reports Ecological Internet, a forest advocacy group that carried out a campaign against the project
http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0521-felda.html 21/05/2009
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Sainsbury's purchase of fish fingers isn't enough to sustain certified palm oil
Only 1% of sustainable palm oil has been bought because some supermarkets won't put their money where their mouth is
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/21/palm-oil-greenwash 21/05/2009
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Government 'greatly concerned' by palm oil production
By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
The Government has joined calls for Britain's best-selling household groceries to use sustainable palm oil.
The Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said the Government was "greatly concerned" by the impact of palm oil production in South-east Asia, where it causes extensive deforestation and threatens the survival of the orangutan and other rare animals.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/government-greatly-concerned-by-palm-oil-production-1687560.html 19/05/2009
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Logging moratorium `a must' to save Riau forests
Rizal Harahap , The Jakarta Post , Pekanbaru, Riau | Sat, 05/16/2009 2:05 PM | The Archipelago
The NGO Riau Forest Rescue Working Network (Jikalahari) is urging the central government to reform forestry policies and end land disputes to slow the pace of deforestation in the province.
"Deforestation in Riau is due to the paper industry and oil palm plantations' conversion activities," Susanto Kurniawan, the organization's coordinator, said Thursday at a seminar on the logging moratorium to help save the Semenanjung Kampar area.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/05/16/logging-moratorium-a-must039-save-riau-forests.html 16/05/2009
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Malaysian Palm Oil Stockpile Sinks to Near 2-year Low
Business Times (Malaysia)
THE price of palm oil is expected to hold at around RM2,700 per tonne as Malaysia's stockpile fell to itslowest in almost two years.The stockpile has almost halved to 1.29 million tonnes at the end of April this year, from a record of 2.27million tonnes in November 2008.In the first four months of this year, the oil palm trees produced only 5.08 million tonnes of crude palmThis is 4 per cent less than a year ago.12/05/2009
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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
The Old Music hall
106-108 Cowley Road
Oxford OX4 1JE
Phone: +44 (0) 1865 403341
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Web (en): www.orangutans-sos.org
Email: click for contact form
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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
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Web (en): www.bornfree.org.uk
Email: click for contact form
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Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK (BOS UK)
Michelle Desilets
8 Temple Square
Aylesbury
Bucks
HP20 2QH
UK
Phone: 08456 521528
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Web (en): www.savetheorangutan.org.uk
Email: click for contact form
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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
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Web (en): www.cockroach.org.uk
Email: click for contact form
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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
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Web (en): www.foe.co.uk
Email: click for contact form
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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
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Web (en): www.orangutan.org.uk
Email: click for contact form
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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
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Web (en): www.wwf.org.uk
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