Palm Oil – Orangutan’s Deadly Foe
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010The challenge of saving the orangutan – man’s closest relative – from extinction is trickling down to the weekly shop. Many of the biscuits, margarines, breads, crisps and even bars of soap that consumers pick off supermarket shelves contain an ingredient that is feeding a growth industry that conservationists say is killing the orangutans.
Prince Charles – Save The Rainforests
Monday, May 19th, 2008Prince Charles says there needs to be rewards for preserving the rainforest and therefore helping to prevent climate change. He called for a mechanism to be devised to pay poor countries to prevent them felling their rainforests. The prince says that the forests provided the earth’s “air conditioning system”.
He said it was “crazy” the rainforests [...]








