Indonesian Oil Palm Destroys Rainforests
FORESTS ALERT!
Indonesian Oil Palm Destroys Rainforests, Intimidates Communities Protest Deutsche Bank's Funding of PT London Sumatra
By Forests.org, http://forests.org/
May 29, 2004
TAKE ACTION @ http://forests.org/action/indonesia/
Indonesia loses at least two million hectares of rainforest every year, much due to monoculture oil palm plantations. Oil palm is a vegetable oil produced on vast estate plantations in South East Asia and exported to Western markets. Oil palm plantation creation frequently destroys ancient primary rainforests, wipes out 80-100% of local biodiversity, leads to pollution of land and water from pesticides, and displaces local communities. Land is often stolen from forest dependent local peoples.
In Sumatra the huge oil palm company "PT London Sumatra" is currently intimidating a local community which is peacefully fighting for the return of their forest lands. The oil palm company has dug a massive ditch, 6 metres deep and 4 wide, around the village to cut off the protesting villagers. And now the company has sent in militias to violently silence the villagers. PT London Sumatra is largely bankrolled by the German Deutsche Bank. Email Deutsche Bank - encouraging them to pressure London Sumatra to stop its intimidation, and demand the Bank not fund further expansion of oil palm plantations into primary rainforests. Human rights abuses are at the core of the rainforests crisis. Together we must make a stand and end such barbaric and ecocidal practices - please send this email now!
TAKE ACTION @ http://forests.org/action/indonesia/
Indonesian Oil Palm Destroys Rainforests, Intimidates Communities Protest Deutsche Bank's Funding of PT London Sumatra
By Forests.org, http://forests.org/
May 29, 2004
TAKE ACTION @ http://forests.org/action/indonesia/
Indonesia loses at least two million hectares of rainforest every year, much due to monoculture oil palm plantations. Oil palm is a vegetable oil produced on vast estate plantations in South East Asia and exported to Western markets. Oil palm plantation creation frequently destroys ancient primary rainforests, wipes out 80-100% of local biodiversity, leads to pollution of land and water from pesticides, and displaces local communities. Land is often stolen from forest dependent local peoples.
In Sumatra the huge oil palm company "PT London Sumatra" is currently intimidating a local community which is peacefully fighting for the return of their forest lands. The oil palm company has dug a massive ditch, 6 metres deep and 4 wide, around the village to cut off the protesting villagers. And now the company has sent in militias to violently silence the villagers. PT London Sumatra is largely bankrolled by the German Deutsche Bank. Email Deutsche Bank - encouraging them to pressure London Sumatra to stop its intimidation, and demand the Bank not fund further expansion of oil palm plantations into primary rainforests. Human rights abuses are at the core of the rainforests crisis. Together we must make a stand and end such barbaric and ecocidal practices - please send this email now!
TAKE ACTION @ http://forests.org/action/indonesia/
Starmail - 29. Mai, 19:56
