Palmoil industry kills orangutans as pests

The orangutang’s mother was killed on a palmoil plantation

By Rainforest Rescue The British Broadcasting Corporation reports that orangutans are treated as "pest" and exterminated on Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil plantations. In the last year alone, up to 1,800 orangutans were killed in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo).

The rainforest is being clear-cut and consequently, the orangutang’s livelihood is destroyed forever. They wander hungry through the plantations as though in a daze, looking for food and thus eat the palm seedlings. Palm oil plantation workers are paid to kill orangutans either before a forest is cleared or if they see any in a plantation.

Either way, it is totally illegal to harass, harm or kill any orangutans.

Please sign a letter to the Malaysian Palm Oil Council and protest with your signature against the slaughter of orangutans.

Tell the palmoil industry: Orangutans are no pests!

"Some workers found an orangutan on the plantation," one of their colleagues said in the BBC interview. "The company paid them $100 for it. I don't know what the company did with the ape, but they want them gone because they see them as pests."

Although Orangutans are protected by law in Indonesia, they are being hunted mercilessly. Their natural habitat is threatened by the extreme expansion of palmoil plantations.

Support the call by well-known orangutang-environmentalist Sean Whyte and Rainforest Rescue to protect these highly endangered apes. Sign our protest letter to the palmoil industry and demand judicial standards to protect the orangutans. Orangutangs are no pests!

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