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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 1w ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
#News: After the deadly floods in #Sumatra, Tapanuli #orangutans face a bleak future. Now their legal protections are being stripped back to make way for more #mining. Fight back when you shop! 🧐🛍️ #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect
Tapanuli Orangutan Facing Extinction From Forest Loss Palm Oil Detectives
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Tapanuli Orangutan Facing Extinction From Forest Loss Palm Oil Detectives

Save the Tapanuli orangutan! The rarest ape in the world faces extinction after floods, cyclones and now rezoning of their habitat in Sumatra #BoycottPalmOil!

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Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social
· 1w ago
Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade as experts question a billionaire’s zoo https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/baby-orangutans-in-india-expose-illegal-wildlife-trade-as-experts-question-a-billionaires-zoo/ #India #environment #wildlife #orangutans
Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade as experts question a billionaire’s zoo
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Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade as experts question a billionaire’s zoo

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The discovery of five baby orangutans abandoned on a plantation in eastern India is highlighting the country’s growing role as a destination for trafficked apes. Experts say wealthy collectors, expanding air links with Southeast Asia and loopholes in wildlife laws are to blame. India also legally imported 41 orangutans between 2021 […]

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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 3w ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
#Research from @uniGoettingen shows #palmoil plantations are bad for #wildlife great and small. Help endangered #elephants 🐘 #orangutans 🦧 #rhinos 🦏#birds 🦆🦉 native #plants 🌿 TAKE ACTION #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🩸🔥❌ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
Palm oil is bad for wildlife great and small: study Palm Oil Detectives
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Palm oil is bad for wildlife great and small: study Palm Oil Detectives

#Palmoil plantations have an overall negative impact on #biodiversity, according to research released this week. The #study, published in Nature Communications, found palm oil plantations are home to fewer insect species than even intensive rubber tree plantations. A forests expert at James Cook University, Bill Laurance, said of the research: “The big message is that oil palm is bad for biodiversity, in every sense of the word — even when compared to damaged rainforests that are regenerating af

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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 3w ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
#News: After the deadly floods in #Sumatra, Tapanuli #orangutans face a bleak future. Now their legal protections are being stripped back to make way for more #mining. Fight back when you shop! 🧐🛍️ #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
Tapanuli Orangutan Facing Extinction From Forest Loss Palm Oil Detectives
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Tapanuli Orangutan Facing Extinction From Forest Loss Palm Oil Detectives

Save the Tapanuli orangutan! The rarest ape in the world faces extinction after floods, cyclones and now rezoning of their habitat in Sumatra #BoycottPalmOil!

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Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social
· 3w ago
Wildfires threaten Indonesia’s orangutans as rescuers find injured animals https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/wildfires-threaten-indonesias-orangutans-as-rescuers-find-injured-animals/ #Indonesia ##environment #wildlife #orangutans #wildfire #wildfires
Wildfires threaten Indonesia's orangutans as rescuers find injured animals
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Wildfires threaten Indonesia's orangutans as rescuers find injured animals

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Wildfires sweeping across parts of Indonesia’s Borneo island have left endangered orangutans struggling to survive, prompting rescuers to evacuate animals found injured, stranded and surrounded by thick haze. A female Bornean orangutan nicknamed Novita was among dozens of apes rescued from wildfires in parts of Sumatra and Borneo in recent months. […]

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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 1mo ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
It’s not just #orangutans 🦧🧡 countless #rainforest animals are at risk from #oilpalm 🐵🐒 A #study in Cell Biology finds #macaque babies 3 x more likely to die from palm oil #pesticide. Help them and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife! 🌴🩸 @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
Palm Oil Increases Deaths of Baby Macaques Palm Oil Detectives
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Palm Oil Increases Deaths of Baby Macaques Palm Oil Detectives

In Peninsular Malaysia, a new study published in Cell Biology by a team led by Dr Anna Holzner of German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig has found that infant mortality rates among wild southern pig-tailed macaques are alarmingly high due to frequent visits to oil palm plantations. These plantations expose the infants to increased risks from predators, human encounters, and harmful agricultural chemicals, potentially affecting the development and survival

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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 1mo ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
#News: Orangutans are vanishing! 🦧🔥 50% of recent #palmoil clearing in Borneo was in PRIMARY FORESTS, destroying the last corridors for Bornean #orangutans. With Sumatran & Tapanuli species also crashing, all 3 are CRITICALLY ENDANGERED. #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
Orangutans on the Verge of Extinction
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Orangutans on the Verge of Extinction

The Bornean orangutan is facing imminent extinction. We are both the cause and the ones who will bear the brunt of the consequences.

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Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social
· 1mo ago
Tapanuli orangutans face mining, landslides, and fire threats — with no recovery plan https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/tapanuli-orangutans-face-mining-landslides-and-fire-threats-with-no-recovery-plan/ #environment #wildlife #orangutans #mining #wildfire #wildfires
Tapanuli orangutans face mining, landslides, and fire threats — with no recovery plan
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Tapanuli orangutans face mining, landslides, and fire threats — with no recovery plan

JAKARTA — Nearly a year after what scientists describe as one of the most severe ecological shocks ever documented for the world’s rarest great ape species, there is still no coordinated recovery strategy for Tapanuli orangutans, even as mining resumes, future development plans remain active, and a strong El Niño introduces a new threat. That […]

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Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social
· 1mo ago
Rescuers race against time as fires ravage orangutan habitat inside Indonesian oil palm concession https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/rescuers-race-against-time-as-fires-ravage-orangutan-habitat-inside-indonesian-oil-palm-concession/ #Indonesia #environment #wildlife #orangutans #habitat #PalmOil #wildfire #wildfires
Rescuers race against time as fires ravage orangutan habitat inside Indonesian oil palm concession
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Rescuers race against time as fires ravage orangutan habitat inside Indonesian oil palm concession

JAKARTA — Conservationists are racing to rescue orangutans from a fire-ravaged peat-swamp forest inside an RSPO-certified oil palm concession in West Kalimantan, with smoke still rising and the ground remaining dangerously hot. The 657-hectare (1,623-acre) forest, designated as a High Conservation Value (HCV) area inside PT Kayung Agro Lestari (KAL), is home to around 60 […]

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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 1mo ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
#News: Airlines' "green" fuel is a lie! ✈️🌴 Criminals disguise virgin palm oil as waste (POME) to sell as #SAF "Sustainable" Aviation #Fuel. This #fraud funds #deforestation, killing #orangutans #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
Aviation's palm oil problem
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Aviation's palm oil problem

As airlines worldwide scramble to source scarce SAF and polish their environmental credentials through carbon offsetting measures, criminals are seizing the opportunity to cash in. GRAHAM GREIG digs deeper.

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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
Bornean #Orangutans are the largest tree-dwelling mammals in the world. Critically endangered by #palmoil #deforestation they are disappearing 😿⌛️ Help them every time you shop! 🌴💀🪔🙈⛔️#Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife!! @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
Bornean Orangutan Pongo pygmaeus Palm Oil Detectives
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Bornean Orangutan Pongo pygmaeus Palm Oil Detectives

The beautiful Bornean Orangutan is critically endangered from palm oil, mining deforestation. Fight back for them and boycott palm oil in the supermarket!

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earthling 🌍 ☕ @appassionato@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
Boosted by @gvenema@fairmove.net
Replying to
Nine orangutans have so far been evacuated from the Ketapang district of West Kalimantan province because of the threat from wildfires. Photograph: Muffidz Masum/Indonesia Ministry of Forestry/YIARI/AFP/Getty Images #photography#wildfires#Indonesia#orangutans
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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
#Sumatran #Orangutans are critically #endangered due to #palmoil #deforestation 🦧🧡. 80% of their rainforest habitat has been destroyed in 20 years. Protect them when u #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🔥🪔⛔️ @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
Sumatran Orangutan Pongo abelii Palm Oil Detectives
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Sumatran Orangutan Pongo abelii Palm Oil Detectives

Iconic and super smart Sumatran Orangutans reproduce slowest of all mammals and are critically endangered by palm oil and mining. Boycott palm oil for them!

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