Palm Oil Expansion in India

On the expansion of palm oil in India from my column with The Hindu.

Amazonian Palm Oil

On Amazonian palm oil's double standards, which despite being introduced with a promise of sustainability has been taking a toll on wild habitat and tribal land with deforestation and chemical pollution. Cartoon from my column with The Hindu. 

Uses and Impacts of Palm Oil

Uses of palm oil versus impacts of palm oil. Meanwhile Malaysia just lost its last Sumatran Rhinoceros, and the critically endangered species is now extinct from the country.

Comic from my column with The Hindu.

Illegal Palm Oil

Redesigned logos of some companies sourcing illegal palm oil in Indonesia. Based on the findings of an investigation in Sumatra, Indonesia by Rainforest Action Network. Comic from my column with Sunday Mid-Day.

Offbeat Olivia's Offbeat Travels

Offbeat Olivia's offbeat travels. From my column with Sunday Mid-Day. 

Oil Palm Monoculture in North East India

After causing complete annihilation in several tropical countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, palm oil is all set to crush India, starting with the North East. The comic appears in my Sunday column with Mid-Day today.

More reading on the issue here-

http://www.conservationindia.org/articles/oil-palm-should-not-be-expanded-in-arunachal-pradesh

http://www.arunachaltimes.in/an-inclusive-oil-palm-policy-for-people-and-biodiversity/

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/mizoram-bamboozled-by-land-use-policy/article6005950.ece

Orangutan Halloween

The orangutans celebrate Halloween on Green Humour just the way the tiger, the leopard, the rhino and the elephant did last year (http://greenhumour.blogspot.in/2012/10/halloween-in-wild.html). Fortunately for the orangutans, the anti-palm oil movement is getting stronger each day, but substantial measures still have to be implemented if we are to assure our intelligent cousins of a secure future. If you haven't renounced palm oil yet, do it NOW!

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Orangutans and Palm Oil

Palm oil companies have already destroyed 90 % of the Orangutan's habitat in Borneo and Sumatra. Orangutans that lose their homes and stray into the plantations are exterminated in brutal manners and the babies are sold in the illegal pet trade. Manufacturing palm oil is not only veritably unsustainable, but is also the biggest threat to the survival of Orangutans. Read more about this issue on http://www.saynotopalmoil.com/ 

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