Palm oil

     Palm Oil

Palm oil is from the roots of certain plants especially the west African oil palm. The environmental and social impacts is causing forest conversion, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, air pollution, soil and water pollution and climate change. Palm oil is found in some food and household products. Palm oil is a consumption of vegetable oil from the mesocarp. You will find palm oil mostly in Indonesia.

Orangutans are one of the endangered species because, people are feeding them food that has palm oil and because other people are burning down trees which means that Orangutans have no Habitat. These Orangutans have been feeding on Palm oil. In Sumatra there are less than 6,600 Orangutans but in Borneo there are less than 54, 000 Orangutans. It is that Sumatran Orangutans may be the first to be extinct. Orangutans need these forests for food, water and shelter. In the forests people could leave aluminum that  are actively toxic to any plant not agriculture to the soil. Slash and burn agriculture (cutting down the jungle, burning the plants, then planting things on the ashes) works for a little while.

We all need to focus on what we need to do about the Orangutans and those animals who are endangered. We need to protect their habitats and their future of growing up to a adult.