Palm oil is a cheap vegetable oil that comes from ... “The problem is very complicated,” says Nayla Azmi, Communications Officer for Orangutan Information Centre, a local nonprofit.

P alm oil production is the primary threat to orangutans, pushing these magnificent creatures towards extinction. The demand for palm oil, a versatile ingredient in numerous products, from food to ...

These native forests are home—the only home—for the arboreal Sumatran orangutan. During the process in which land is cleared for palm oil plantations, orangutans are either displaced to lower quality ...

Rows of oil palms replace rain forest near Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Vast expanses of orangutan habitat have been lost to palm oil, used for cooking, food products, and cosmetics.

Effective orangutan conservation requires effective ... of lowland forests to plantation agriculture, particularly for palm oil production, is well documented. Palm oil is so important to ...

Oil palm is the most productive of all oil yielding crops so replacing it with another would only displace biodiversity loss. We instead call upon orangutan lovers to demand environmentally ...

The “people of the forest” won’t live in the wild much longer if we keep chopping down their rainforest homes.

Consequently, oil palm companies and logging firms have been able to encroach ... to mitigate the negative impacts of logging and timber plantations on habitats and orangutan populations. For example, ...

Palm oil has been and continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some of the world’s most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species like the Orangutan, pygmy ...

Palm oil companies in Indonesia continue to operate on protected peatlands and clear forests, despite having their forestry ...