Thursday, May 8, 2008

Greenpeace campaign to save Indonesian rainforest from the greedy Unilever

I feel like I should do more than just posing, sending messages to Unilever bosses (their addresses can be found in Greenpeace website) and stop buying Unilever products. Because the victims there are not just the orangutans but the real "orang" (human beings)! How many villages destroyed to cater for our obsession of silky soaps?

Plus palm oil plantation would use all the top soil and destroy the land. I am no expert on biology, but I understand that our soil can only cater for a certain amount of plants and it needs rotation between different plants. Monocultural way of planting is horrible. Why can't we ever learn from the native tribes in rainforests all over the worl on how to conserve and not being greedy?


This picture is taken by Greenpeace campaign in Manchester, April 2008 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stopdove/2449863740/). More pictures of people supporting Greenpeace in protest against Dove destroying the reainforest can be found in http://www.flickr.com/photos/stopdove/2449863740/



And this is Greepeace's message:
"The people in this photo have joined Greenpeace's campaign to convince Dove that they should stop destroying rainforests for palm oil and help protect endangered species like orang-utans - so can you. Palm oil - one of the ingredients in Dove soap - is devastating the rainforests of Indonesia as they're torn down to make room for huge oil palm plantations. In fact, these rainforests are being destroyed faster than any other in the world largely because of the demand for this oil, putting rare animals such as Sumatran tigers, Javan rhinoceroses and orang-utans in even greater danger. This destruction also releases massive amounts of greenhouse gases which are accelerating climate change. Unilever, the company that makes Dove, needs to clean up their act. Make sure they see this photo by clicking 'send to a friend' below and sending it to Patrick Cescau, Group Chief Executive of Unilever at patrick.cescau@unilever.com, then find out what else you can do at www.greenpeace.org.uk/dove."

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