Tot
de grootste slachtoffers van de palmolieterreur in Indonesië behoren de 3 soorten orang-oetans, waarvan één soort pas onlangs werd ontdekt, de
Tapanuli, deze werd onmiddellijk op de lijst van bedreigde diersoorten
gezet, waar de 2 andere soorten, de Sumatra en de Borneo orang-oetan, zich al lange tijd op bevinden. Alleen de laatste 16
jaar zijn er al meer dan 100.000 Borneo orang-oetans 'verdwenen'
(voor het overgrote deel vermoord door de mens, die NB dicht verwant is aan de orang-oetan.....)......
De
grote boosdoener is palmolie, waar eerder hout het bestaan van
oerwoud en daarmee de bewoners bedreigde, is het nu de enorme vraag naar
'goedkope'* palmolie....... Niet alleen wordt palmolie
verwerkt in veel levensmiddelen, maar zit het ook in producten als
shampoo en wordt het godbetert toegevoegd aan
dieselbrandstof......... (dat laatste noemt men dan 'duurzame
diesel....' ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!)
Palmolie kan niet duurzaam zijn, zeker als je het enorme gebruik ziet van deze olie, die verkregen wordt door: -mensen van hun grond te verjagen, -dieren te vermoorden, ofwel direct middels geweervuur, dan wel door bosbrand, of door -het gebruik van kinderarbeid.........
Er is maar één manier om van de voornoemde zaken af te komen: het gebruik van palmolie totaal verbieden!! (en zo snel mogelijk!) Zolang de vraag naar palmolie bestaat zal men regels met voeten treden en voornoemde zaken in praktijk blijven brengen......
Lees
de volgende twee artikelen, teken ajb de petitie en geeft het door! De BBC heeft een
documentaire van meer dan 50 minuten: 'Red Ape, Saving the Orangutan' maar deze mag belachelijk
genoeg niet worden gezien buiten GB en in GB zelf voor een beperkte
periode....... Hieronder zie je een korte (gruwelijke) samenvatting
van die documentaire. Dit onderwerp is te belangrijk om achter een
'betaalmuur' te verdwijnen.....
Het eerste artikel is van The Guardian en daaronder een petitie van Change.org (lees en teken deze ajb en geeft het door!):
Some
of the world’s biggest companies are failing in their pledge to
stop deforestation by 2020. Don’t let them forget it
Thu
10 May 2018 14.50 BST
A
scene from BBC2 documentary Red Ape: Saving the Orangutan.
Photograph: Alejo Sabugo/International Animal Rescue/BBC/Alejo
Sabugo/International Animal Rescue
Few
who watch the documentary Red
Ape: Saving the Orangutan
tonight on BBC2 could fail to feel some sense of responsibility for
the desperate situation faced by Indonesia’s orangutans. These
extraordinary creatures are our closest relatives, sharing 97% of our
DNA. Their similarity to us is astonishing. They are intelligent,
inquisitive, smile and show empathy. They even laugh when tickled,
like us, when most other animals have evolved to be ticklish only in
an itchy, irritating sort of way as a protective reflex. Encountering
orangutans in the wild is like nothing else I’ve experienced.
They
once thrived in Indonesia’s lush, green rainforests but over the
last 50 years they have been forced from their home and killed. In
the last 16
years alone, 100,000 Bornean orangutans have
been lost. All three species – Bornean, Sumatran and the
Tapanuli, a
species discovered only last year –
are now on the critically endangered list. The reason? It started in
the 1960s as forests were logged for timber, but now it’s palm oil.
Global
demand for palm oil has increased six-fold since 1990. It’s in half
of all packaged products on supermarket shelves and to avoid it
completely would be incredibly tricky. Although palm oil in food can
no longer be described simply as vegetable oil and must be clearly
labelled (thanks
to an EU directive in 2014),
there is no such law for products such as soap, shampoo and other
cosmetics. The supermarket Iceland’s decision to ditch
palm oil from
all of its own-brand products was, it says, a response to the palm
oil industry’s catastrophic failure to halt deforestation and deal
with the problem.
Even
the Roundtable
on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
– the industry body charged with ensuring registered companies
trade only in oil that has not come from deforestation – is failing
spectacularly. Just over a week ago, Greenpeace exposed massive
rainforest destruction in Papua allegedly caused by palm oil
companies that
are subsidiaries of a current RSPO member. Buying from them were big
multinationals including Unilever, Nestlé, Pepsico and Mars. The
companies concerned have responded by saying they are taking
Greenpeace’s claims seriously and taking appropriate action. But if
Greenpeace’s assertions are correct, no company can claim the palm
oil it uses is 100% “sustainable”.
Red
Ape reveals the truly remarkable work that International
Animal Rescue workers
are doing on the ground to save these animals. At this crucial stage
in their existence, every life saved is vital to their survival. But
if we want to save orangutans in the long term, as John Sauven,
Greenpeace UK’s executive director, says in the programme, we must
save their home – the rainforest. You can sign Greenpeace
UK’s petition
to support this mission.
Orangutans
spend 95% of their lives in the trees, but right now, Indonesia’s
forests are disappearing at the rate of one football pitch every 25
seconds.
In the absence of industry reform, multinationals such as those
mentioned above must take responsibility. In fact, back in 2010 they
actually promised to take responsibility. Then, members of
the Consumer
Goods Forum pledged that
by 2020 they would no longer buy palm oil from any company that
decreased the net amount of rainforest. But have they done anything
about it? Not much, it seems. In fact, in January this year, when
Greenpeace asked 16 companies to publish which palm oil traders they
were buying from, many refused – although not those listed above.
With
rainforest clearance continuing and the Indonesian government
boasting a projected increase in palm oil production from 36.5m
tonnes in 2017 to over 42m tonnes by 2020, the situation really is
dire. And it’s not just orangutans that are threatened. More than
69% of Sumatran elephant habitat has been destroyed within one
generation, and there are fewer
than 100 Sumatran rhinos left
in the wild. People are part of this conflict too. Land grabbing and
exploitation of workers, including the use of child labour, is
endemic. And decades of deforestation for palm oil have created
conditions ideal for furious forest and peatland fires. These
fires,
often deliberately started by companies clearing the land, threaten
the health of people across southeast Asia and drive climate change.
Indeed,
if nothing is done, eventually we will all pay the price, since
land-use change, mainly from tropical deforestation, accounts for 12%
of global carbon emissions.
Keeping these forests intact really is vital for all life on Earth.
There can be no more delaying until the next decade. 2020 is less
than two years away and the burden of responsibility lies firmly with
the multinationals. Palm oil can be produced without destroying
rainforests but only if big companies support it. I won’t let them
forget their zero-deforestation promise. Will you?
• Chris
Packham is a naturalist, nature photographer and author
Save the Orangutan
They
once thrived in Indonesia’s lush, green rainforests but over the
last 50 years they have been forced from their home and killed. In
the last 16
years alone, 100,000 Bornean orangutans have
been lost. All three species – Bornean, Sumatran and the
Tapanuli, a
species discovered only last year –
are now on the critically endangered list. The reason? It started in
the 1960s as forests were logged for timber, but now it’s palm oil.
The
two species of orangutan, Bornean and Sumatran, differ a little in
appearance and behavior. While both have shaggy reddish fur, Sumatran
orangutans have longer facial hair. Sumatran orangutans are reported
to have closer social bonds than their Bornean cousins. Bornean
orangutans are more likely to descend from the trees to move around
on the ground.
Both
species have experienced sharp population declines. A century ago
there were probably more than 230,000 orangutans in total, but the
Bornean orangutan is now estimated at about 104,700 based on updated
geographic range (Endangered) and the Sumatran about 7,500
(Critically Endangered).
The
name orangutan means "man of the forest" in the Malay
language. In the lowland forests in which they reside, orangutans
live solitary existences. They feast on wild fruits like lychees,
mangosteens, and figs, and slurp water from holes in trees. They make
nests in trees of vegetation to sleep at night and rest during the
day.
Adult
male orangutans can weigh up to 200 pounds. Flanged males have
prominent cheek pads called flanges and a throat sac used to make
loud verbalizations called long calls. An unflanged male looks like
an adult female. In a biological phenomenon unique among primates, an
unflanged male can change to a flanged male for reasons that are not
yet fully understood.
Sources:
*
Als we oerwoud vernietiging (veelal middels
brand, waar men de rook tot op honderden kilometers ver kan
ruiken), luchtvervuiling, transport en slavenarbeid niet meerekenen
is palmolie 'goedkoop', bovendien is palmolie allesbehalve gezond,
terwijl het in onnoemelijk veel producten zit, zelfs in producten van
Ekoplaza........
Zie ook:
'Unilever 'in veilige groene handen' bij Nils Andersen (o.a. BP)'
'Orang oetan, zwanger en hongerend houdt zich vast aan de laatste boom terwijl bulldozers haar leefgebied vernielen voor palmolie'
'EU: palmolie in diesel is niet duurzaam, maar stoppen met subsidie is amper een optie'
'EU moet palmolie in diesel verbieden, redt de orang oetan en de oerwouden!'
'Greenpeace actie om te voorkomen dat een schip met palmolie aanmeert in Rotterdam'
''Britse reclame code commissie' weigert tv reclame die gericht is tegen het gebruik van palmolie'
'Unilever voor het gerecht gedaagd door ex-arbeiders in Kenia'
'Milieudefensie knettergek geworden, felicitaties n.a.v. palmolieverbod in diesel per 2030'
'PepsiCo verantwoordelijk voor ontbossing oerwoud Borneo...... Boycot Pepsi producten!'
'Regenwouden bufferen niet langer o.a. koolstof, maar stoten dit netto uit, dit door bedrijven als PepsiCo........'
Zie ook:
'Unilever 'in veilige groene handen' bij Nils Andersen (o.a. BP)'
'Orang oetan, zwanger en hongerend houdt zich vast aan de laatste boom terwijl bulldozers haar leefgebied vernielen voor palmolie'
'EU: palmolie in diesel is niet duurzaam, maar stoppen met subsidie is amper een optie'
'EU moet palmolie in diesel verbieden, redt de orang oetan en de oerwouden!'
'Greenpeace actie om te voorkomen dat een schip met palmolie aanmeert in Rotterdam'
''Britse reclame code commissie' weigert tv reclame die gericht is tegen het gebruik van palmolie'
'Unilever voor het gerecht gedaagd door ex-arbeiders in Kenia'
'Milieudefensie knettergek geworden, felicitaties n.a.v. palmolieverbod in diesel per 2030'
'PepsiCo verantwoordelijk voor ontbossing oerwoud Borneo...... Boycot Pepsi producten!'
'Regenwouden bufferen niet langer o.a. koolstof, maar stoten dit netto uit, dit door bedrijven als PepsiCo........'
