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1. Demand the labeling of palm oil in cosmetic products 
The Sumatran orangutan society, have been very successful in campaigning to get palm oil labeled in all products who use it. They have recently won their clear labels, not forests campaign and it is now compulsory for all food products containing palm oil to be labeled in Europe and the UK. However this does not cover all products...cosmetics are not included in this campaign but i believe they should be.
The palm oil industry is responsible for destroying thousands of acres of deforestation in other countries. Currently 300 football fields are destroyed in south east Asia every hour for palm oil. And it's not just the vegetation that is being affected! The animals that rely on the forest (such as orangutans) are affected, many orangutans have no place to go when the forest is destroyed. 20 years ago their were more than 300,000 Bornean orangutans in the wild, now their are less than 45,000 in the wild. Orangutans only give birth once in 6 - 10 years therefore it is hard for them to breed as much as they are dying out due to deforestation.
Please go to http://www.wspa.org.uk/wspaswork/orangutans/ for more information on orangutans.
But worst of all the industry does not even label palm oil! Most palm oil is labeled as vegetable oil, therefore many people are unaware that it is in their shopping products. This is taking away our freedom to know what exactly goes into our cosmetics, it takes away are choice of whether or not to use palm oil! This is wrong, they should label palm oil and deliberately point out if it is palm oil free!
2. Demand palm oil be labeled!
Today palm oil is used in lots of shopping products, some of which includes pears soap, pringles, most peanut butters, clover, ginsters, haribo, Good fellas pizza, warburtons and much more. Unfortunately I wouldn't be mentioning this if it didn't have such an affect on the environment.
The palm oil industry is responsible for destroying thousands of acres of deforestation in other countries. Currently 300 football fields are destroyed in south east Asia every hour for palm oil. And it's not just the vegetation that is being affected! The animals that rely on the forest (such as orangutans) are affected, many orangutans have no place to go when the forest is destroyed. 20 years ago their were more than 300,000 Bornean orangutans in the wild, now their are less than 45,000 in the wild. Orangutans only give birth once in 6 - 10 years therefore it is hard for them to breed as much as they are dying out due to deforestation.
Please go to http://www.wspa.org.uk/wspaswork/orangutans/ for more information on orangutans.
But worst of all the industry does not even label palm oil! Most palm oil is labeled as vegetable oil, therefore many people are unaware that it is in their food. This is taking away our freedom to know what exactly goes into our food, it takes away are choice of whether or not to eat palm oil! This is wrong, they should label palm oil and deliberately point out if it is palm oil free!
3. Sign here to put a STOP to animal cruelty
Orangutans are caged, bound and brutalised, and exposed to degrading and inhumane conditions after having their homes ripped away from underneath them. Others are mindlessly slaughtered as illegal loggers destroy their habitat.
These creatures have the intelligence and sensitivity to think and feel and understand what is happening to them, to grieve for their homes and loved ones, to feel fear, hopelessness, confusion and despair. Please help them.
DeforestACTION, via Taking It Global, are aiming to rescue these animals and provide a safe home for them, restoring areas of barren and degraded land and working with the Indonesian Government to preserve what is left of their forest. They will involve the local people in preserving and protecting these animals and their natural habitat.
Please add your name and email address to the Taking It Global database to show your support for these animals. By adding your name you are agreeing to Taking It Global's terms of use. We can then also update you on the progress that the deforestACTION team is making in securing new homes for those fortunate enough to be rescued from their dreadful conditions. As individuals they are suffering appallingly, but as a species they are gravely close to extinction. When the forests are restored, many of these animals will be rehabilitated and released back into the wilds of Borneo where they belong.
Therefore, by helping us to provide these individuals with a life worth living, you are also helping to provide a future for their species. These animals are on the verge of extinction, and they are suffering unforgiveably at the hands of humans. They need those of us who are strong enough to acknowledge their plights to speak out on their behalf.
EVERY HOUR an area the size of 300 football fields of the world's oldest and most valuable forest is lost, along with the animals it homes, many of them critically endangered. Entire ecosystems are being lost at dramatic rates.
The climate is irreversibly damaged by the carbon released through this practice. Much of this logging is illegal.
DeforestACTION is working with governments to put a STOP to this, but we need your support. Please add your name to our growing list of supporters. Stand up and be counted. By adding your name you are joining Taking It Global and DeforestACTION in their fight to stop illegal logging, re-forest areas of degraded land and rehabilitate the Orangutans rescued during this process. Please add your name and pass on to others who might be interested in signing up.
I am writing about the proposals to build a new town called Cranbrook near where I live. If you do this, millions of animals, birds, insects and even people will lose their homes and livelihoods. I know that it is now far too late to stop the building, but it is not too late to reduce the plans to half the size. This is the flood plains that you are about to build on so your building work will only be destroyed if there is a flood, which there is a high risk of.
This is supposedly to reduce homelessness and to increase the number of people employed, but it will actually destroy more employment by destroying the farmers’ land and the forest where the forest rangers work. If we do need more business jobs, old buildings can be reconstructed and reused wherever possible. As for the homeless issue, I feel that the right way to deal with this would be to reuse old homes wherever possible and to reduce household costs.
Haven’t you ever taken the time to observe and try to understand the beautiful wildlife that live there? The wonders of nature should teach you why it is so important that you reduce the planned area to around half its size. Trees are vital for our survival as they produce life-giving oxygen as well as providing a home to the unique British wildlife.
Unless you at least reduce the planned area, you will never be forgiven by the environmentalists. There may be protests outside the Council houses, letters of hate and disgust, and maybe even economic boycotts of this county. I will not support the Council in any way until you reduce the plans and unless you do so, I for one will never forgive you".
This was how my letter to the Devon County Council read. Unless I get enough signatures here, beautiful innocent wild animals will die.
6. Stop destructive mining at Fairbreeze
The market value of product that results from strip mining sea dunes make it very difficult to not invest in such endeavours. These endeavours are destroying the prettiest parts of our coastline leaving toxic and poisonous remains for who ever is unfortunate enough to be there.
Shareholders and Politicians are the only people who benefit from this short sighted destruction of endangered species habitat in wetlands and quickly disappearing indigenous forest.
7. Stop Deforestation - what are we thinking?!
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Deforestation is becoming increasingly distressing. The accelerating destruction of rainforests is now being recognised as one of the leading cause to global warming. The carbon emissions caused from the destruction of rainforests are much greater than any emissions produced by aeroplanes and factories.
This deforestation is a occurring every single day at an alarming rate of one acre per second.
Due to the deforestation it will mean devastating events occurred from climate change. Including rising sea levels and decreased snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere.
At the rate of all this destruction, the world’s rainforests could completely vanish, in no more than 100 years. The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing livestock. Deforestation has many negative effects on the environment. The most dramatic impact is a loss of habitat for millions of species. Seventy percent of Earth’s land animals and plants live in forests, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes.
Together we must stop the deforestation to help our Earth and species.
8. Stop illegal deforestation at Monarch Butterfly Sanctuaries
The only host plant of the monarch butterfly (milkweed) is often a noxious weed in Canada. In the USA there is a loss of biodiverse agriculture and agricultural lands to urban sprawl and use of pesticides and herbicides.
In Mexico there is illegal logging of Oyamel fir trees within the Monarch Butterfly Habitat. In 2009 According to Monarch Watch over 50 percent of the monarchs died due to mudslides, freezing rains and floods within and around the sanctuaries.
9. Stop converting forests in the Province of Sindh to forestless areas
On 28th June 2010 a summary moved from senior member Board of Revenue has been passed by Chief Minister of Sindh province of Pakistan on 3rd July 2010 to convert over 6 laces acres entire Riverine forest land of Sindh on both banks of River Indus. In summery it has been mentioned that it was decided on the directives of President of Pakistan during the meeting held on 22nd June 2010 at President House Naudero Larkana, for distribution in landless female peasants on ownership grounds. So the entire Riverine forest land of Sindh, over 6 laces acres has been converted in Revenue Status.
We know that it is a plan to hand over the forest land to like minded land lords, these land lords particularly close to forest minister Sindh have already submitted female lists mentioning forest names and claimed areas. In these areas remaining forest cover is also claimed. Principally forest land could not be distributed on ownership grounds but only Revenue land could be distributed. So for the Government to accommodate its friends, forest land was converted in Revenue status. This will be handed over in the names of poor women permanently on ownership grounds.
If they imposed such plan then:
• All the Riverine forest land will be converted in state of feudal.
• Due to agriculture cropping activities live stock will not be allowed to graze in the forest area, people will be discouraged of this business. This will be cause of shortage of meat, milk in province.
• There will be migration from Riverine area in significant numbers. Millions of people will be homeless as well as without livelihood with destructive socio economic impact on the people of the Riverine area.
• Remaining forest cover which also included in submitted women reclaim lists will be deforested.
• No single acre will be available to department for any new policy, program or project of forestry.
• After deforestation the remaining wildlife will be vanished from Riverine area.
• due to unplanned installation of tube wells, the under ground water flows which recharge the sweet water pockets in all over Sindh would be deprived off their capability to recharge these pockets. Entire Sindh will face drought of sweet water.
• A great disaster to environment as well as to socio-economic condition.
10. Label Palm Oil. Save the Orangutan. Save the Rainforest.
The orangutan and its habitat are seriously at risk due to palm oil production - an ingredient in 10% of our supermarket products. As consumers, we cannot make informed and ethical choices on purchases as palm oil is not properly labeled.
Please sign this petition to ask the EU parliament to lead by example and to start to take some action. It is time to to action NOW - before it is too late. Please share this petition with your friends, family and colleagues and on your social networking sites.
Thank you.
Red Alert Orangutan Preservation Campaign
www.primateprotection.org.uk
11. Say No To Un-Sustainable Use Of Palm Oil
Palm oil is a major contributor to global warming. Rain forests are being destroyed by either being burnt or logged to make way for Palm oil crops.
Over 1/2 of the world animal species live in these rain forests. Their homes are getting destroyed and they are DYING all because of this. Companies such as Arnotts, Nestle, Kelloggs and the body shop need to stop using Palm oil or get their Palm oil form a sustainable source.
12. Produce all paper from cotton not wood!
Paper products are usually made from wood. But our trees are becoming scarce and thin. Before the industrial revolution trees could be found in thick forests or the occasional wood. Now the demand for paper requires the deaths of thousands of trees daily.
Cotton is not a scarce resource. we can grow it and regrow it in huge fields. The American Dollar is made from cotton. So why not everyday paper? Paper should be made out of cotton to preserve our trees.
13. Save A Tree
The issue is that we are losing trees at a very fast pace. Without trees we can expect more runoffs of topsoil, the temperature of the earth to change, extinction of animals that rely on tree’s to live, and irregularities in the balance of carbon dioxide and oxygen.
Some might think that this won't affect us, but it can/will create a reaction on the earth that will affect other resources in the area. By saving the trees we are creating a better future for ourselves and our future children.
There has been a dramatic increase in lumber demands due to the rising human population. These demands have led lumber companies to cut down countless acres of forests. Loggers ignore the effects they are causing to the environment in order to keep up production.
In the long term, however, deforestation ravages the land. Erosion increases and habitats are destroyed when forests are not properly maintained. Animals are forced to move into populated areas and are a nuisance to the inhabitants. Trees naturally absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, when they are burned, the trees release the carbon inside of them. Cleaning our atmosphere will become more difficult if tree populations continue to decrease.
Habitat preservation, erosion and pollution are just a few causes of clear cutting.
15. Stop the destruction of the rainforests
Rainforests are still being destroyed at an alarming rate in response to worldwide demand for cheap farming and cheap timber.
Losing the rainforests would be catastrophic, not only do trees play a critical role in absorbing the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming, forests also provide habitats to about two-thirds of all species on earth. The FAO (UN Food & Agriculture Organisation) estimates that deforestation of tropical rainforests accounts for the loss of as many as 100 species a day.
If we do not change our course of action, there may not be any rainforests remaining in 50 years time — that’s in your lifetime!
The current rate of clearing is equivalent to losing an average of 20 football pitches every minute. This means that in the last 10 years an area approximately the size of Spain has disappeared!!!
The destruction of the rainforests is also a major factor in global warming. Emissions from deforestation in developing countries represent about 20% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, or about 6 billion tonnes of CO2 per year. In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. Stopping the loggers is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change.
No new technology is needed to save the rainforests, says the GCP(Global Carbon Project) just the political will and a system of enforcement and incentives that makes the trees worth more to governments and individuals when they are standing than they are when destroyed. Richer nations already recognise the value of uncultivated land. The EU offers €200 (£135) per hectare subsidies for "environmental services" to its farmers to leave their land unused.
This petition has been written by the year 7 students of Cambridge House Community College, Valencia http://www.cambridgehouse.es - they deserve a future. Act now to protect our planet by signing this petition, this will then be sent to the governments of the world.
16. Buy Recycled
A petition to force the United States government to only purchase paper made out of 100% recycled fibers; to reduce energy use, deforestation, landfill overflowage, and waterway pollution (hydrogen peroxide, which is usually used to whiten recycled paper, does not pollute our waterways).
