Michelle Desilets: Palm oil and the fate of orangutans
Channel: EcoWALKthetalk
Date: 2012-05-06

Michelle Desilets, Executive Director of Orangutan Land Trust, discusses the pressures that deforestation for palm oil, creates on the survival of orangutans.  She also covers: Is there such a thing as sustainable palm oil in the context of the challenges of the RSPO process? Is boycott of palm oil necessarily a solution or are there other more effective ways, such as engagement with industry and government through petitions and emails? These have been critical in the case of Greenpeace's Nestle KitKat campaign, and may be bearing results in the public's call against Tripa Peat Swamp clearing. 

Visit Orangutan Land Trust at http://www.forests4orangutans.org

Interview by Bhavani Prakash of http://www.ecowalkthetalk.com

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