INT'L DELIGHT COFFEE CREAMER

Thank you, Jessica Walsh, for letting teamORANGUTAN know about the use of palm oil in these products.

**MOST COFFEE CREAMERS CONTAIN PALM OIL - EVEN IF THEY ARE LABELED ORGANIC** I used to be hooked on coffee creamers myself, but have found that using sugar and half and half is not only a HEALTHIER alternative - it's cheaper, and better for the environment.
Please consider using sugar and milk in your coffee instead of these artificial creamers.I know it's hard - coffee drinkers take their coffee seriously - but at what cost? You'll feel so good about yourself knowing that you are doing something better for the environment AND your body by not drinking artificial creamers that contain palm oil.

The International Delight website says, "The worldwide food industry leaves an enormous environmental footprint. That's why International Delight believes it is our responsibility, and a critical business priority, to find ways to become more sustainable."

LET'S EDUCATE INTERNATIONAL DELIGHT ON HOW TO BE MORE SUSTAINABLE. 

Contact them here: http://www.internationaldelight.com/Contact-Us

Let International Delight know about the dangers of palm oil (kill orangutans - 10 years until extinction). Ask them to please stop using palm oil in their products. Ask them to stand behind their ethical statements, and to show us action.

And please, don't buy coffee creamers that contain palm oil.

Let your friends know - pass it on.
  

Warning: IKEA CANDLES - Palm Oil

Great job, Anir! Thanks for making an effort to educate others about this!

http://www.ikeafans.com/forums/chats/38665-boycott-use-palm-oil.html

Please, take 30 seconds out of your day and send IKEA a message: http://info.ikea-usa.com/Contact/

Let IKEA know that their decision to use palm oil in their candles will kill the orangutan species. You don't need to use palm oil in candles - it's unnecessary and detrimental.

Every effort counts.

Thanks, Anir!

teamORANGUTAN.org

teamORANGUTAN.org

the official site for all things orang! 

Unilever stops using palm oil!

SUCCESS!

Unilever, who is a part of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, has decided to stop including palm oil in their products. The plantation they bought palm oil from was actually destroying the rainforest and killing Orangutans. The plantation was a part of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil.

Unilever's decision put a permanent end on a 33 million dollar supply contract.

UNILEVER WAS THE #1 PURCHASER OF PALM OIL! 

Products made by Unilever are safe to buy and safe to support. Some common ones are shown in this picture.

This means that orangutans were most likely killed to make those Girl Scout cookies.

Don't taste so good now, do they?

Two thumbs up for Unilever. Thanks for standing up for what's right.

If Unilever can do it, what's stopping the Girl Scouts?

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61N1LE20100224

Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil is the same association that the Girl Scouts are proud to be a part of. However, this association is just a name, and does not actually regulate how or where the palm oil is made. Don't let them fool you.  

TED.com

Ted is an amazing site - you can find blogs and videos on any subject, all delivered by prudent leaders of change.

Here is an excerpt from a blog, which elaborates on a speech given by Willie Smit. TED interviewed expert Richard Zimmerman, the director of Orangutan Outreach (redapes.org), to find out more about what's really going on in Indonesia .

"Orangutans are sentient beings who share approximately 97.8% of our DNA and express a range of emotions that is just as wide as our own. The forests of Borneo and Sumatra are the only two places on Earth where these gentle, intelligent creatures live. The cultivation of palm oil over the last decade has directly led to the slaughter of thousands of individuals as the industry has expanded into previously undisturbed areas of old-growth rainforest. The UNEP estimates that an area of Indonesian rainforest the size of six football fields is cut down every minute of every day. Read that sentence again.

The palm oil and timber industries are guilty of truly horrific ecological atrocities, one of which is the systematic genocide of orangutans. When the forest is cleared, adult orangutans are generally shot on sight. In the absence of bullets they are beaten, burned, tortured, mutilated and often eaten as bushmeat. Babies are literally torn off their dying mothers so that they can be sold on the black market as illegal pets to wealthy families, who see them as status symbols of their own power and prestige. This is not hyperbole, mind you. It has been documented time and time again.

Some of the luckier baby orangutans are confiscated and brought to sanctuaries such as Samboja Lestari, as Willie mentioned, or the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue Center, which is now home to nearly 700 orphaned and displaced orangutans in Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Many of these orangutans are only weeks old when they arrive, and all of them are psychologically traumatized and desperate for their mothers -- who are no longer alive. And remember, these are the fortunate ones. For every one we rescue, at least six others are estimated to have been killed, along with their mothers."

Be a part of the change. It's up to you. It's up to us.  Please stop buying and supporting products that use palm oil. Your purchase power is huge.

You can read the article here: http://blog.ted.com/2009/03/orangutans_and.php

  

Google Earth & Orangutans

Google Earth Helps Orangutans
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How Orangutans Are Fighting For Their Lives

Evolution provides a way for a species to survive by adapting to ever-changing environments. Our species has evolved from apes, and recently scientists are beginning to believe that we evolved specifically from orangutans.

We are human, and we have a strong desire to live and thrive. We have survived through evolution. We have an attitude of perseverance, and we never give up. Orangutans share this desire….and orangutans will fight for their lives.

Join me in this visual journey (I gathered this information from MailDaily, a UK online news site).
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What was once a lush, thriving home for orangutans, has been destroyed.



Orangutans are scared of water. It is very unusual for them to swim because of predators, such as crocodiles. Orangutans, when forced to cross water, have swung from tree to tree.


To adapt to ever changing environments, orangutans have done something that has stunned experts - they have taken to the water! Forced to cross waters where tree's have been cut down, they are learning to swim through water to survive.


'This is a rarity - to see orangutans coming down for a swim is unheard of in the wild,' says Simon Husson, scientific consultant for the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.

'However, we know that orangutans are intelligent and innovative.

'They try out different behaviours, or ways of solving problems in their environment, and over time develop cultural innovations.'



The orangutans are learning to use the water as a resource, like these orangutans who have found food.



These particular orangutans have been saved by an orangutan sanctuary after their homes were destroyed. Adapting to water has created a new, fun hobby for these relatives of ours...swimming and wading! Here's a picture of an orangutan enjoying the water after a meal.



The spirit in these orangutans is so human. Primates are the most ancient of the mammal families - and they date back to the age of the dinosaurs! They have lasted so long - much longer than us. They have survived through good conditions and bad, and now we are going to kill them so we can add an unnecessary ingredient to our cookies and soaps and coffee creamers.

Please, consider your stance. These orangutans want to survive. We have evolved in a way that gives us the chance to save their entire species.

All you have to do is stop buying products that contain palm oil. They are fighting for their lives.

10 years. 96.7% genetically related. Your choice.