Slasher Forest
Animal Extinction
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Can you spot the orangutan?
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Indonesia's tropical forests are being burned down to grow palm trees for palm oil. Palm oil is one of the key drivers of rainforest and tropical deforestation worldwide.
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This destruction is harming Orangutans along with other wildlife. 50,000 orangutans died as a result of palm oil deforestation in the last 2 decades.
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Palm oil is an ingredient found in half of all supermarket products. This includes most Halloween candies such as; Twix, Butterfinger, Almond Joy, Snickers, and Milky Way. There are many more products containing palm oil in stores such as in cosmetics, lotion, detergent, frozen pizza, margarine, etc.
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What can you do?
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Don't purchase products that contain palm oil.
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Urge companies to stop using palm
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Support these organizations:
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Orangutan Alliance
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Orangutan Foundation International
The Orangutan Project
Orangutan Information Centre
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Interactive Activity
Turn on the flashlight on your phone and check out the coffin of animals that will soon be extinct. Read the cards and learn why.
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Over 37,400 species are listed as threatened with extinction in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
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We are currently in our 6th mass extinction.
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Since 1870 we have wiped out 60 percent of animals on Earth.
- Eating Our Way to Extinction Documentary