Reply from Defra regarding palm oil and Orangutan issues

I wrote to Lord Mandelson in May 2009 and received this reply(below)  in October 2009 which was a little disappointing time wise, however it is a lengthy reply and at last answers my questions.

I was delighted to find that the Government are funding a two year project with the RSPO to review and improve the [...]

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Reply from Clarins on their palm oil useage

Reply from Clarins on their palm oil useage

The reply from Clarins was dismal – it took nearly 4 months and a lot of pestering to get any reply at all, and when I did it was insufficient. I had already promised to use body shop products and use up the Clarins that I was using, [...]

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My UK campaign to stop Cadbury using Palm oil – let's follow Australia/New Zealand!

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My UK campaign to stop Cadbury using Palm oil – lets follow Australia/New Zealand!

Australian and New Zealand people power has overcome Cadbury, who have decided to stop using palm oil in many products, due to the petitioning and campaigning of the Australians. This is wonderful news, but just a start in [...]

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Cadbury Australia/New Zealand take palm oil out of chocolate!

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Cadbury Australia/New Zealand take palm oil out of chocolate

How did they do it ? Read about how Australia and New Zealand did it below….

New Zealand information…..

The Cadbury’s NZ move was a collective effort with Auckland Zoo being a main player along with Judith Collins in Dunedin who is the producer for [...]

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Reply from the Department of Energy & Climate Change re: Palm oil & Orangutans

reply from dept of energy & climate change

At the end of June 2009, I finally recieved this 3 page letter from the Department of Energy & Climate Change with regard to their commitments and efforts to save the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra and the unsustainable palm oil plantation situation.

Their reply is thorough in [...]

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Leading article: An oil shock we cannot ignore

Leading article: An oil shock we cannot ignore

There is no shortage of ways to measure the cost of palm oil. First there is the catastrophic impact on the wildlife of Malaysia and Indonesia, whose rainforests are being cleared to grow the crop. The habitat of endangered species, from orangutans to Sumatran tigers, is being torn [...]

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Palm oil and climate change

Palm oil and climate change
By James Turner, Greenpeace forests campaigner
Palm oil is an inescapable part of everyday life. As the new research from the Independent shows, it is now virtually impossible to avoid buying products that contain palm oil in every supermarket, chemist and sweet shop in Britain. Considering the fact that this commodity is [...]

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Seeing palm oil plantations in Sabah, Borneo

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Seeing palm oil plantations

As we made our way to the Sepilok Jungle Resort, where we stayed that night, the guide showed us some palm kernels – the type which are being grown absolutely everywhere for its oil. Ok, they can make cooking oil, soap and lots of

Palm Oil problems – the facts

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How much do you know about palm oil and how it is killing the orangutans?  We are not looking for a boycott of palm oil useage – just a campaign to stop the use of ‘unsustainable palm oil’ for products in our supermarkets and to make [...]

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My Pledge to help Orangutans

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Whilst researching the Palm oil situation in Borneo and Sumatra and the problems it is causing to the Orangutans, wildlife and people of those areas, I also learnt the other big lesson ‘We are killing our environment and the ecosystem of the rainforests’.  Over the next few [...]

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