Palm oil was discovered a long time ago and people started using it to make cookies more cheaply, crisps more crispy and many other things we do in our everyday lives. Did you know that over 50,000 orangutans have died due to palm oil consumption and that 20 to 30 orangutans die every day? What happens is the orangutans‘ habitat is destroyed. 

    Palm oil is in nearly everything. Palm oil is used to make a lot of chocolate, soap, pizza dough and even noodles! I’m only naming a few products India and China use a lot of palm oil but Pakistan and Bangladesh are rising consumers. Did you know that all the palm oil plantations in the world cover more space than New Zealand? 85% of palm oil gives 35% of the vegetable oil demand on just 10% of the land!

   
Trees breathe C02 and when we cut them down for the palm oil they can’t breath in the C02 because we killed them. If we balance our consumption out and start using a little less palm oil and a little bit more coconut oil or sunflower oil, then we can save the palm trees and the animals. Orangutans aren’t the only animals that are being killed. The Sumatran Rhino and the Pygmy Elephant are also being killed. If we don’t stop now the animals that we know and love will soon be gone forever. So start to balance out your consumption of palm oil and you can save thousands of animals from being killed.