The title of this post is the tagline for a new blog on Wildlife Direct, “Bornean Sun Bear Conservation.” You know I love bears, so I want to bring attention so a very important project. The conservationist who writes the blog, Siew Te Wong, has spent the last 10 years studying and trying to find [...]
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New, important Action Alerts on the Take Action! page. GO! I’m a little giddy this morning because I may have helped a little bit in our quest to get the Girl Scouts to rid their cookies of palm oil. Finally, after a few tries, I got a response from Mr. Chris Bergerson, Project Manager, Girl [...]
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I notice that today starts the beginning of Girl Scout cookie “season.” You’ll see the girls at shopping malls, grocery stores, and their parents will hawk the cookies where you work. Nothing has changed since last year, the companies who bake Girl Scout cookies still list palm oil as an ingredient in place of trans [...]
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This is a new alert from Defenders of Wildlife that’s important to THE ENTIRE PLANET. Across the world, illegal timber operations are decimating vital habitat for orangutans and other wildlife. In fact, a recent U.N. report predicts that orangutans could be extinct within the next 20 years — the victims of habitat destruction due mainly [...]
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I’m a frequent visitor to Wildlife Direct’s endangered African wildlife blogs. Today the headline above grabbed my attention. I’ll post some of this disturbing news here, but please visit the Manioc Valley blog and read the entire story. Also, please stop buying products that contain palm oil until you’ve verified that the palm oil is [...]
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Sorry for the absence of late, but let’s get on with it there’s much to share! The brutal Canadian seal hunt continues. Read HSUS’ Rebecca Aldworth’s eyewitness account of the slaughter. There are graphic photos in her blog. You should look at them. Defenders of Wildlife needs you help to stop the Alaska wolf massacre. [...]
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The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs has a new Palm Oil Crisis campaign Web site that is chock-full of outstanding information. The zoo’s goal is to “Protect Orangutans by Promoting Sustainable Palm Oil & Product Labeling,” and eplains why this is a crisis:“In the recent wave of trying to avoid trans-fatty acids, the industrial [...]
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I found this article on the Animals Friends Croatia Web site. I want you to read the entire article and then I want you to do your own research and take action. Recently, I took a look at all my vegan margarine and vegan shortening products and found they all contain palm oil or palm [...]
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My last entry attracted the attention of Michelle Desilets, Director of the Borneo Organutan Survival Foundation. Michelle tells me they are actively working to rescue organutans from palm oil plantations. Visit the link and do what you can to help Michelle and others to save the orangutans from extinction. If you don’t help, who will? [...]
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If you regularly buy Girl Scout Cookies, maybe it’s time to find another way to support that organization. I checked out the ingredients of every cookie they’re selling this year and they all contain trans fatty acids and they all contain palm and palm kernel oil. Why is that bad, you ask? OK, if you [...]
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