Nature Alert: Paper killing orangutans, destroying forests and millions of other animals.

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Paper killing orangutans, destroying forests and millions of other animals.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

YOU URGENT HELP NEEDED PLEASE

As you can see below this post, SPICERS Limited - a UK paper company imports paper from Indonesia in the full knowledge it has caused the destruction of rainforests and the deaths of orangutans - amongst millions of other animals. They seem not to care.

SPICERS won't say which brands of their paper originates in Indonesia.

When you buy paper for your home and office the only way you can be sure you are not increasing SPICERS profits at the cost to orangutans is to insist on proof from your supplier or retailer the paper you want to buy does NOT come from Spicers. It will be important to see proof as Spicers use wholesalers to distribute their paper tainted with the blood of orangutans.

If you would like to express your views on SPICERS contribution to rainforest destruction, please write to Jane Rowe, Marketing Director Jane.rowe@spicers.co.uk

Ask Spicers why it is they won't say which of their products originate from AP&P? Why the secrecy?

Check out Spicers policies which could be called 'imaginative'.

http://www.spicers.co.uk/environmental-policies---spicers-ltd-127.html

Hall of Shame for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the Palm Oil Industry.

Nothing can prepare one for the sight of the systematic extermination of orangutans by the government of Indonesia.

Look at the photos and news articles on these pages in the context of a statement the President made to the media on 10th December 2007.

“In the last 35 years about 50,000 orangutans are estimated to have been lost as their habitats shrank. If this continues, this majestic creature will likely face extinction by 2050,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the launch of an orangutan conservation plan at the climate talks in Bali.

“The fate of the orangutan is a subject that goes to the heart of sustainable forests … To save the orangutan we have to save the forest.”

Statements like these are most welcome, but unless backed up by action, such words fall on deaf ears within the Ministry of Forestry....who are busy granting licences to cut down the very forests the President says they should protect!

When you think you are to busy to help, please could you reflect for a moment on .........

The following extract refers to environmental problems in general. I just hope you find it as thought provoking and relevant to orangutans as I have.

"This is such a shocking and unpalatable fact that most people deny it, or they just don't want to think about it. They believe as individuals, they can do little about it, so push it to the back of their minds. But I can't do that.

When something has to be done, we need to do it. It doesn't matter how big the challenge is or how hard the solution; if I know something is wrong, and I am in a position to help, I will do my best to make it right." Duncan Bannatyne, successful British businessman.