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1. What is another name for vegetable oil used as a food ingredient?

2. What foods can it be found in?

3. Why has the Indonesian rainforest been given protected status?

4. Why is the Indonesian rainforest under threat?

5. Approximately how many Orangutans have died in recent years as a result of these
plantations?

6. Describe the rainforest ecosystem once deforestation has occurred.

7. Who causes the deforestation?

8. How do they clear the forest?

9. Is the protected status working?

10. What percentage of timber is illegally obtained in Indonesia?

11. How bad is the threat to Orangutans?

12. How much does Palm Oil earn for Indonesia?

13. Why is there such high demand for palm oil?

14. Where does Indonesia rank in world greenhouse gas emissions?

15. What is the other problem palm oil companies are creating here?

Outline why palm oil is such big business and how it affects the tropical rainforest ecosystem:
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Answers

1. Palm Oil
2. Bread, Chocolate, Soap, Pizza, Biscuits
3. Wildlife habitat (orangutangs)
4. Palm oil plantations – profits from selling wood then palm oil
5. 50 000 in Indonesia in recent years
6. . Loss of vegetation cover, loss of rapid nutrient recycling, loss of soils, barren, loss of
species diversity and wildlife.
7. Mirgrant labourers
8. Slash and Burn
9. No protected areas still logged illegally
10. 88%
11. Extinction
12. £5billion
13. Cheapest form of Veg oil
14. 3rd
15. Exposing peat bogs and Co2 release