你知道我們每一個人都在加速一種世界最大的生態浩劫嗎?
你知道我們在進行史上最大的靈長類動物屠殺嗎?

婆羅洲和蘇門答臘島是世界上2處最具有生物多樣性的地區，然而這些地區的瀕臨絕種動物名單卻也是最長的。這份名單上包含了美麗的紅毛猩猩。這2個東南亞島嶼擁有極豐富的生態面貌，包含2萬種左右的花，3千種左右的樹，30萬種左右的動物，每年更會發現數千多的新物種。除了驚人的生物多樣性和纖細的物種網之外，在印尼和馬來西亞，每1小時就有300座足球場大小的雨林被夷為平地，被用來生產一種植物⋯⋯油。也就是每1分鐘就有6座足球場大小的雨林被破壞。這種植物油叫作「棕櫚油」，生活中的數百種產品都找得到它的蹤影。從烘焙產品、糕餅糖果、美妝用品到清潔用品，許多都能在你每週一次的購物商品中發現。

由於對棕櫚油大量的國際需求，棕櫚樹造林正急速取代嚴重瀕臨絕種的紅毛猩猩雨林棲地。在過去20年，超過90%牠們的棲息地已經被摧毀了。

紅毛猩猩是我們最親近的親戚之一，約有97%的DNA與我們相同。紅毛猩猩在印尼語的意思為「叢林之人。」據估計每天有6 - 12隻這些「叢林之人」因為棕櫚油而被殺害。這些溫和的生物不是被殺害就是處於砍伐森林的過程中。這些過程讓牠們為了尋找食物誤闖棕櫚樹造林，或是在非法動物交易活動中被捕獲做為寵物，極度缺乏食物和營養。

對棕櫚油業者來說，紅毛猩猩可被當作寵物。在砍伐森林過程中，工人們被告知如果有野生動物擋在路上，他們可以用任何一切必要手段來處置牠們，不管這些手段有多不人道...通常，紅毛猩猩都是被伐木機械所輾過、毆打致死、活埋或是活活燒死。全都是因為棕櫚油...

政府資料指出在過去20年來，已經有超過5萬隻紅毛猩猩因為棕櫚油的森林砍伐而死亡。專家表示如果這種破壞和開發的模式繼續下去，這些聰明的叢林特技演員在3 - 12年內會於野外絕種 (最早為2015年)。而牠們的叢林棲息地也被認為會在20年內完全消失 (大約為2033年)。

棕櫚油的年產量大約有5000萬噸，這些棕櫚樹幾乎不能永續發展，取代了1200萬公頃密度的生物多樣性雨林。這相當於每年砍伐掉一個北韓大小的面積。

棕櫚油對於我們星球也有很可怕的衝擊。生產這種植物油不只造成河川汙染和土壤侵蝕，而且當造林工人對森林的其他樹木、灌木和殘骸垃圾放火，為棕櫚樹開路時，會產生大量對地球毒害汙染的濃煙，這已經被證實為造成溫室氣體的第2大元凶。

購買含有粗野棕櫚油的產品，就等於是在幫助摧毀古老、原始的雨林，徹底消滅紅毛猩猩這個物種，並創造大規模的生態浩劫。下次當您進行每周購物時，請想想這些後果。這些後果不是只為了紅毛猩猩和其他動物，也是為了我們人類，因為我們不能沒有雨林而生存下去。我們有選擇的機會，但紅毛猩猩沒有。
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''Did you know that each and everyone of us is fueling one of the world's biggest ecological disasters and acts of primate genocide in history?

Borneo and Sumatra are two of the most bio-diverse regions of ⋯⋯the world, yet they have the longest list of endangered species. This list includes the magnificent orangutan. These two South-East Asian islands are extremely rich in life, containing around 20,000 flowering plant species, 3,000 tree species, 300,000 animal species and thousands more being discovered each year. Despite this amazing biodiversity and delicate web of species, an area the size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour in Indonesia and Malaysia to make way for the production of one vegetable oil. That's 6 football fields destroyed each minute. This vegetable oil is called palm oil, and is found in hundreds of the everyday products, from baked goods and confectionery, to cosmetics and cleaning agents... many of which you buy in your weekly shopping.

Due to the massive international demand for palm oil, palm oil plantations are rapidly replacing the rainforest habitat of the critically endangered orangutan; with over 90% of their habitat already destroyed in the last 20 years.

Orangutans are some of our closest relatives, sharing approximately 97% of their DNA with humans. Orangutan means 'Person of the jungle' in the Indonesian language. It is estimated that 6 to 12 of these 'jungle people' are killed each day for palm oil. These gentle creatures are either killed in the deforestation process, when they wonder into a palm oil plantation looking for food, or in the illegal pet trade after they've been captured and kept as pets in extremely poor conditions and provided with extremely poor nutrition.

Orangutans are considered as pests by the palm oil industry. In the deforestation process, workers are told that if wildlife gets in the way, they are to do whatever is necessary in order to dispose them, no matter how inhumane. Often orangutans are run over by logging machinery, beat to death, buried alive or set on fire... all in the name of palm oil.

Government data has shown that over 50,000 orangutans have already died as a result of deforestation due to palm oil in the last two decades. Experts say that if this pattern of destruction and exploitation continues, these intelligent acrobats of the jungle will be extinct in the wild within 3 to 12 years (as early as 2015). It is also thought that their jungle habitat will be completely gone within 20 years (approximately 2033).

Around 50 million tons of palm oil is produced annually; with almost all of that being non-sustainable palm oil, that replaces 12 million hectares of dense, bio-diverse rainforest. That's the equivalent landmass of North Korea deforested each year for palm oil alone!

Palm oil is also having a shocking impact on our planet. The production of this one vegetable oil is not only responsible for polluting rivers and causing land erosion, but when the plantation workers set fire to the remaining trees, shrubs and debris to make way for the oil palms, it produces immense amount of smoke pollution that is toxic to planet earth. This has been found to be the second biggest contributor to greenhouse gas in the world.

By purchasing products that contain crude palm oil, you are helping destroy ancient, pristine rainforest, wipe out species like the orangutan, and create a large-scale ecological disaster. Think of the consequences next time you do your weekly shopping; the consequences not only for orangutans and other animals, but for us as the human race; for we cannot survive without the rainforests either. We have a choice, orangutans do not.''更多