Palm Oil production
Define: Grown on the African palm tree, palm oil is a type of vegetable oil. Big areas of rainforest are cut away and burned each year so that there is more room for palm oil plantations. Palm oil is best to avoid but it is in lots of our everyday food and products.
Effects: Palm oil is pushimg sumartran tigers and lots of other animals to extinction. Rainforest people need animals to eat. It is also taking up a lot of space and more trees are getting cut down. Making the rainforest people have to move somewhere else.
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Define: Grown on the African palm tree, palm oil is a type of vegetable oil. Big areas of rainforest are cut away and burned each year so that there is more room for palm oil plantations. Palm oil is best to avoid but it is in lots of our everyday food and products.
Effects: Palm oil is pushimg sumartran tigers and lots of other animals to extinction. Rainforest people need animals to eat. It is also taking up a lot of space and more trees are getting cut down. Making the rainforest people have to move somewhere else.
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