Stop deforestation of Indonesia for Palm Oil.

Please stop the destruction of Indonesia's beautiful forests.....the plants and animals and people/cultures that are being destroyed through deforestation and palm oil plantations took millions of years to evolve into their present beautiful and diverse forms.....many of the trees being felled took hundreds of years to grow.....please stop this madness.

Surely the world will pass laws and ban palm oil and Indonesian forest products if Indonesia does not reduce and/or stop this destruction on their own..... sacred life is being destroyed and surely we in the world who consume palm oil are partially responsible for this horrific destruction.

Southeast Asia's/Indonesia's rainforest are unique in the world and one of the gems of creation. Unfortunately they are quickly being destroyed with short term profit in mind.....surely these profits are soaked in blood. 

We the undersigned in this petition hope the governments/people of the world become more aware of what products contain palm oil and stops and/or reduces their consumption of foods/biofuels containing palm oil to stem this destruction not only in Indonesia but in other areas of the world which recklessly destroy large tracts of tropical forest to grow palm oil.

We also call for governments and food retailers of the world to clearly label food and biofuel products which contain palm oil to show consumers that the products that they are buying were produced by destroying tropical rainforest on a massive scale and to state that the tropical forest/wildlife destroyed may not ever be restored to it's original diversity and beauty.....or restored at all.....so that we, the concerned citizens of the world can stop consuming palm oil and being party to this orgy of environmental destuction.
  
We would rather have these beautiful rainforest stay intact on planet earth.....or what's left of these forests.....so that our daughters and sons might possibly be able to visit Indonesia some day and witness the incredible beauty and ancientness of these ecosystems.....but to destroy these forests so that our sons and daughters can eat candy bars or wear lipstick made with palm oil truly seems like madness to us.

There are many other foods and fruits which come from tropical forest which grow and can be harvested sustainably without destroying the forest.....surely I would buy those products.....even from Indonesia, if they were readily available and produced and packaged in a manner friendly to the rainforests and wildlife and forest people of Indonesia.

Although their may be some benefits from growing palm oil for cooking oil or biofuels the concentration of these industries in Southeast Asia and the widespread destruction of what little tropical forests remain there suggest an overconcentration of this agricultural practice in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar (formerly Burma), specifically when protected forest preserve areas are being destroyed.

Perhaps a council of nations/leaders can be assembled to attempt to limit palm oil in tropical countries already denuded of forest and encourage it in countries that have abundant forest cover and can sacrifice a small percentage of their forest cover for palm oil, or if possible, plant palm oil in areas already cleared.

Environmental leaders in these countries should present forest sustainability plans for their forest cover in relation to their agricultural practices etc.

This should be based on size of country, percentage of tropical forest cover still remaining in relation to total land area of the country and original tropical forest cover before large scale deforestation began.

In some areas, such as the island of Borneo, which is part of the country of Indonesia, most of the forest cover has already been destroyed and species such as the Orangutang are predicted to be extinct in the wild by
2012.......because of this deforestation.

In the King James Version of the Christian bible.....in the book of Revelation, there is a passage which states that: "God shall destroy those who destroy the earth" at the end of the world/time/days.....so let's determine what's right concerning this issue and do our best to be responsible caretakers of the earth and not destroyers of the earth so that we, and our nations, can receive God's blessings and not God's wrath and destruction.

We the undersigned agree with the sentiments of this author and wish for the governments of the world to debate and legislate for better food labelling concerning palm oil content and to work together to decrease the concentration of palm oil in areas of the world/tropics already heavily deforested, especially in those areas which face near total annihilation of unique forests and species such as the Orangutang of the forests of southeast Asia/Indonesia/Borneo.