palm oil oral presentation
Hello everyone,
Today I would like to talk to you about a rather large problem. It is responsible for most of the deforestation in the world, it has caused lots of damage to the bio-sphere and atmosphere. It has caused huge amounts of damage to the species living in the rainforest.
This problem is catastrophic and caused by us humans. If some of you are thinking its palm oil, your right! (change)
What is palm oil? Palm oil is a highly saturated oil that comes from the fruit of a palm tree growing in tropical climates. Today most palm oil is produced in Indonesia and Malaysia. Rainforests are destroyed to make room for palm oil plantations. These areas, which are the lungs of the world and home to native wildlife, are destroyed at an alarming rate. Every hour rainforests the size of over 300 football fields are cleared. (change)
As much as hundred different species are now becoming extinct every day. Some animals that are becoming close to extinct are the Sumatran and Bornean Orang-utan, the Sumatran tiger, the pygmy elephant and the Sumatran rhino.
Ten years ago there were still over 150,000 orang-utans in the wild and that number has dropped to 30,000 today! Sumatran tiger and rhino numbers have dropped dramatically to having only 30-40 in the wilds. (change) Every year at least 1,500 orang-utans die cruelly when beaten to death by plantation workers as they are considered a pest and some of these beautiful animals are burnt to death by the uncontrolled fires to clear land, which also kills hundreds of other fauna and flora species. There is a huge risk that none of these animals will be living in the wild by the year 2020, because of the fact the demand for palm oil is huge and increasing. (change)
Although, 30 years ago, no many products contained palm oil, today palm oil is in 50% of our products. It’s in confectionary foods, food items, personal care items and house care products. It may surprise you that some of your
Today I would like to talk to you about a rather large problem. It is responsible for most of the deforestation in the world, it has caused lots of damage to the bio-sphere and atmosphere. It has caused huge amounts of damage to the species living in the rainforest.
This problem is catastrophic and caused by us humans. If some of you are thinking its palm oil, your right! (change)
What is palm oil? Palm oil is a highly saturated oil that comes from the fruit of a palm tree growing in tropical climates. Today most palm oil is produced in Indonesia and Malaysia. Rainforests are destroyed to make room for palm oil plantations. These areas, which are the lungs of the world and home to native wildlife, are destroyed at an alarming rate. Every hour rainforests the size of over 300 football fields are cleared. (change)
As much as hundred different species are now becoming extinct every day. Some animals that are becoming close to extinct are the Sumatran and Bornean Orang-utan, the Sumatran tiger, the pygmy elephant and the Sumatran rhino.
Ten years ago there were still over 150,000 orang-utans in the wild and that number has dropped to 30,000 today! Sumatran tiger and rhino numbers have dropped dramatically to having only 30-40 in the wilds. (change) Every year at least 1,500 orang-utans die cruelly when beaten to death by plantation workers as they are considered a pest and some of these beautiful animals are burnt to death by the uncontrolled fires to clear land, which also kills hundreds of other fauna and flora species. There is a huge risk that none of these animals will be living in the wild by the year 2020, because of the fact the demand for palm oil is huge and increasing. (change)
Although, 30 years ago, no many products contained palm oil, today palm oil is in 50% of our products. It’s in confectionary foods, food items, personal care items and house care products. It may surprise you that some of your