EARTH MATTERS radio - Biodiesel boom creates killing fields for endangered Orangutans

EARTH MATTERS radio - environmental news for KPFA's investigative news show, "Flashpoints." An interview with Michelle Desilets of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK. Orangutans are being brutally attacked, beaten, macheted, and burned to death due to loss of their native habitat to rainforest logging. Once displaced they stray onto massive industrial Palm Oil plantations in Indonesian Borneo. A vast amount of this palm oil is headed for for the Biofuel markets of the USA and Europe. How "sustainable" and "green" is biodiesel, when it's production threatens the survival of the last of the great apes, who share 97% of our DNA? mp3, 8:47
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