WHAT’S WITH THE ORANGUTANS?
• 90% of the orangutan population has disappeared since the Suffragettes first appeared 100 years ago. • Orangutans now face extinction. • 90% of wildlife vanishes when the forest is replaced by PALM OIL plantations, creating biological deserts. • The PALM OIL industry is responsible for removing more than 10 million hectares of tropical rainforest. • Global corporations make huge profits whilst indigineous peoples are illegally forced from the land. HOW DOES THIS AFFECT CLIMATE? • Peat land is drained and burned to create PALM OIL plantations, which releases massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. • Forest fires are deliberately started to clear land and contribute huge amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere. • Tropical deforestation contributes up to 40% of global emissions from fossil fuel burning in any one year! • Indonesia is the 3rd largest producer of CO2 in the world.” Source: http://www.climaterush.co.uk/whatnext.html Despite building a cage to contain our righteous anger, the
