NO Justice in putting lives at stake just for the expansion of oil palm plantations!

Just as you would not want burglars to ransack and pillage YOUR own homes I too like the rest of the worlds population DO NOT want our collective and ONLY home which is Mother Earth to be robbed,raided and decimated.

Lone Droscher-Nielsen:

"Palm oil is now the greatest threat to the survival of orangutans in the wild."

"It's difficult to describe (deforestation in Borneo). But for me, it's like a man-made tsunami."

"There is no way that something as beautiful & innocent as an orangutan could've ever evolved into man."

Killing of the   orangutans as a result of palm oil expansion  into their habitats in Borneo amounts to nothing less than genocide, a  serious environmental crime. Orangutans are some of our closest relatives, sharing approximately 97% of their DNA with humans.

The following are two aphorisms often stated by primate keepers:

"Give a screwdriver to a chimpanzee and it will throw it at another chimpanzee. Give a screwdriver to a gorilla and it will use it to scratch itself. Give a screwdriver to an orangutan and it will escape!"

"Give ten problems to a chimpanzee and it will solve six of the problems in 30 minutes and never solve the other four. Give ten problems to an orangutan and it will take one week, but will solve all ten problems."

Orangutans are also a vital part of the rainforest ecosystem in South-East Asia. They are a keystone species. For example, orangutans help spread many tree seeds; many of which can only germinate once they have passed through the gut of an orangutan. These  beautiful apes are vital in order to preserve the delicate ecosystems of Borneo and maintain the rich bio-diversity of Fauna and Flora in these dense jungles. Thus if the orangutan is removed from the ecosystem, so are those tree species. And there may be many bird, insect or monkey species that rely on those trees as a main food source, so those cogs will also be removed from the system.

Therefore, the 'ecosystem machine' of Borneo and Sumatra will become so disconnected it will eventually become non-existant. This will have catastrophic impacts on other ecosystems belonging to other regions of the world. This will in turn upset the climate, change global weather patterns and increase the chances of natural disasters.

Orangutans cannot live without the rainforest, and the rainforest cannot live without orangutans.

Inaction on the part of the Malaysian authorities is akin to giving the green light to palm oil operators to go round the world pillaging forests and killing of wildlife that stand in the way.

It is about time the Malaysian government legislates to make Malaysian Palm Oil corporations responsible and accountable for their impacts.  If not, it will be too late as orangutans become extinct not because of a lack of knowledge, but because of corporate greed  and a lack of political will.

This will only come about through widely acknowledged expressions of political will at the highest level to see enforcement happen.

Us the Global Community is calling for Malaysian Government to take a tough stand against the Malaysian Palm Oil companies for offences committed against orangutans, the indegenuos tribes, ecosytem housing a multitude of forest wildlife and Flora & Fauna.
More pointedly to stamp out unethical business practices.

We the Global Community STRONGLY urges the Malaysian Palm Oil Corporation (MPOC) to end the conversion of orang-utan habitat into
oil-palm plantations and to adopt a No Kill Policy.

If MPOC is seriously committed towards  wildlife conservation, then action must be seen in ensuring that oil palm plantations are made more ecologically sustainable by incorporating wildlife friendly techniques like retaining fragments of forest to provide species habitat and corridors.

There is no justice in putting the orangutans’ lives at stake just for the expansion of oil palm plantations!

 
There are still many indigenous communities that lose their food and source of medicine once the forest is cleared, and have no choice but to travel to purchase food and medical supplies. This leads to the need of employment to earn money for those supplies, and the biggest source of basic employment in those areas is working for the owners of palm oil plantations. This vicious cycle ultimately takes independent, culturally traditional villages and exposes them to the Western world.

The islands of Borneo are one of the world's last remaining natural gems, gems that the world wants to see. By investing in ecotourism, Malaysia would effectively secure longterm income for their economies, and their people. This would provide those indigenous peoples that currently rely on deforestation and palm oil with alternative employment that does not involve destroying their homeland. Unfortunately until Malaysia stop thinking short-term and start thinking longterm, this is only a vision.


Palm oil is also having a shocking impact on our planet. The production of this one vegetable oil is not only responsible for polluting rivers and causing land erosion, but when the plantation workers set fire to the remaining trees, shrubs and debris to make way for the oil palms, it produces immense amount of smoke pollution that is toxic to planet earth. This has been found to be the second biggest contributor to greenhouse gas in the world.

Rainforest trees and vegetation filter carbon dioxide out of the air, and in turn, produce clean oxygenated air for us to breathe.
This means that in a time when there is more carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere than ever (which is partly due to the forest burning in the first place), we need be growing more forest in order to filter that carbon dioxide and create clean air for us to breathe. Instead, we are doing the opposite and logging forest at an alarming rate.

This increase in carbon dioxide means a larger impact on global warming; leading to rising sea levels, changing weather patterns and
consequently, frequent natural disasters, ice glaciers melting and more species being wiped out.

And it all comes back to preserving the remaining rainforest that remains on planet earth - NOT destroying it for development.

So you see this is NOT just a Malaysian issue but a World Issue.  

Therefore we the Global community hereby signs this Petition and PLEDGE to boycott ALL Malaysian products and not just Palm Oil until the unethical and abominable practices of Palm Oil comes to a complete halt!