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Stop palm oil plantations to save the orang-utans!

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This orang-utan is being rescued by workers of Centre for Orang-utan Protection what was once its forest in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

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Start labelling palm oil on our food products.

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Palm oil is in multiple products from bread, biscuits, and chips to even person care products such as shampoos. The orang-utans live in forests and they are destroyed for palm oil plantation. Without any trees for the orang-utans to live in, the species fights to survive. I want people to stop using palm oil products to reduce the number of plantations in Sumatra, thus helping to save the…

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If the Australian government would require manufacturers to label products to show they contain palm oil, people would stop buying palm oil products and then that could possibly result in fewer plantations in Sumatra. Fewer plantations would mean more orang-utans surviving. I hope that everyone will sign this petition to help take action to prevent the horrible deaths and future extinction…

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