Palm Oil Facts
Learn about how palm oil affects our animal friends and the environment!
Every minute, an area of rainforest the size of 20 football fields gets chopped down for palm oil! ⚽
Baby orangutans are becoming orphans because their mums can't find food or safe homes 😢
25 orangutans die every day because of palm oil plantations! 💔
Palm oil plantations cover an area bigger than England! 🏴
Nutella, KitKats, and heaps of biscuits have palm oil in them! 🍫
Most palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia - that's where our orangutan friends live! 🦧
Only about 104,000 orangutans are left in the wild - that's less people than in my city! 🏙️
Sumatran tigers are critically endangered - there's only about 400 left! 🐅
Palm oil is in about half the stuff at the shops - biscuits, chocolate, shampoo, even toothpaste! 🛒
Elephants are losing their homes too - Asian elephants are endangered with only 40,000 left! 🐘
Indigenous people who've lived in these forests for hundreds of years are losing their homes too! 🏘️
We've already lost 75% of orangutan habitat in the last 20 years! That's most of their homes! 🏠
But here's the GOOD news - when we choose palm oil-free products, we can help save them all! 🌟