Rachel Wieland frames this issue neatly: “We will lose so many species in this generation because we do not realize our small choices make a big impact. For good or bad. If you eat palm oil (especially used in candies and cookies) or use palm oil in your soaps or shampoos, this is destroying the last two remaining orangutan habitats left on the planet. Please take palm oil out of your consumption cycle…” You should know that Rachel is not exaggerating: she’s a Mathematics professor and has been trained to be very precise.

The Indonesian Government has plans to lift protections on vast areas of virgin rainforest on Sumatra island to allow commercial exploitation. Canadian mining company East Asia Minerals is ready to start tearing that rainforest to pieces as soon as Indonesia gives them the go ahead. World citizens cannot allow Eco-habitat and the environment which provides us all with clean air, water and food to be treated as less important than a gold mining operation which will benefit only a select few. Orangutans, palm trees and all of nature are part of that ecosystem and we need to protect those assets. They are yours, mine and they belong to our grandchildren as well.

I join Rachel in asking you to, “Act now! This is URGENT and it must be stopped. Please share this widely and rally up as much support as possible.”

For more information and to offer organizational, financial or other support visit sumatranorangutan.org.

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Also see http://greenwei.com/blog/nature-v-cookie-money-lessons-for-girl-scouts/