@palmoildetectives I check the ingredients and avoid buying anything with #palmOil, but I honestly think something structural has to change. Those corrupt governments need to realize the irreversible harm they’re causing before too late. My heart goes out to all the wildlife losing their habitats so rapidly. 💔🙏
In an effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, #Indonesia stopped issuing permits to clear forests and peatlands in 2011 for 8 years. In 2019, President Joko Widodo made the moratorium permanent in an aim to protect Indonesia's 66 million hectares (254,827 square miles) of forests and peatlands.
The palm oil moratorium expired in 2021, but Jokowi pledged not to issue new permits for palm oil plantations.
Papuan tribe, palm oil firms battle for land rights in Indonesian top court
In a jungled corner of #Indonesia's #Papua, the Awyu tribe await a Supreme Court verdict that will determine whether thousands of hectares of rainforest will be cleared for a vast palm oil concession to be planted atop the graves of their ancestors.
"Birds of paradise, cassowaries... sacred places, and the paths of our ancestors are there," said Awyu man, Hendrikus 'Franky' Woro.