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Palm oil campaign highlighted on Panorama.

Posted by hibiscus - 21 February 2010 at 11:16am - Comments

"DYING FOR A BISCUIT"   --- Monday, 20:30hours on BBC 1 repeated midnight 25 hours

    In the UK we consume huge amounts of palm oil, an ingredient found in scores of products including biscuits, fish fingers, cosmetics and toiletries.

    In Panorama's Dying For a Biscuit, reporter Raphael Rowe journeys into the rainforest of Borneo, where he uncovers evidence of palm oil companies
    cutting down trees illegally and developing plantations on protected land.

    This deforestation releases huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the global environment. As the forest disappears, at a rate of two football
     pitches every minute, so too does the habitat of man's closest cousins, the critically endangered orangutan.

    The Greenpeace UK forest team worked closely with the Panorama team to help them produce it. Watch & Record it! and show it to a friend.