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Viewers in tears watching orangutan's battle with bulldozer during Sir David Attenborough's new documentary
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/viewers-tears-watching-orangutans-battle-2779537
Viewers of Sir David Attenborough's new documentary were moved to tears over a heartbreaking battle between an orangutan and a bulldozer destroying its home.
During the distressful scene, the primate attempted to save its home from the machinery before being forced to flee.
Climate Change: The Facts, airing on BBC One, told how the soaring demand for palm oil was leading to large scale deforestation.
The series showed how huge areas of rainforest were being ripped down and replaced with palm oil plantations, according to the Mirror.
CrispyQ
(36,527 posts)Everything for the humans. Leftovers for everyone else.
sweetroxie
(776 posts)This is so tragic.
G_j
(40,372 posts)sadly
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 22, 2019, 06:05 PM - Edit history (1)
for their latest diet fad or some coconut based anti-aging cream.
EDIT! Sorry I misread the story!
As I said below, My wife is allergic to all palm / coconut based products so I tend to lump them together.
malaise
(269,186 posts)Many Caribbean families have trees in their yards and in several public spaces. People also have coconut farms without harming animals.
I don't understand your coconut reference. Coconuts have also been an integral part of the diet in places like India and other Asian countries.
My sister in Florida has two trees in her yard
progressoid
(49,999 posts)My wife is allergic to palm/coconut based products so I tend to lump them together. And as it is the latest fad healthy ingredient, it gets put into everything now so we read a lot of labels.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)MH1
(17,608 posts)How many billion (million? trillion?) people could the planet hold, and still leave sufficient space for orangutans and other non-human species?
I'm betting that if we knew the number, it would be significantly LESS than the current 7.whatever billion.
Coconut milk, palm oil, or just ethically and locally grown mostly plants diet? It's just about the rate of destruction. Same inevitable outcome.
But of course we should still avoid the worst environmental choices, maybe buy some time for the human race to figure out how not to breed itself off the cliff. Just don't think that making those choices as an individual will be enough.
G_j
(40,372 posts)and its in almost everything
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)catbyte
(34,457 posts)IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)The palm tree isn't cut down to harvest coconuts. Impoverished dark skinned workers climb up and get them.
Tanuki
(14,922 posts)the natural forest is cut down to create oil palm plantations. The reference to coconuts in the other post is something of a red herring, as the coconut palm is a different species of plant from the oil palm, but palm oil is used extensively in the commercial food industry and is a major factor in deforestation in southeast Asia.
NickB79
(19,274 posts)Oil palm plantations are basically giant corn fields, ecological deserts.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)This act against the orangutan is absolutely barbaric but very typical of humans. Until the human species goes extinct,.there is no hope for all of the other species on the planet.
G_j
(40,372 posts)Orangutans and humans share 97 percent of their DNA sequence. Is it the three per cent that makes humans think this is ok?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)The 3% makes all the human horrid difference.
catbyte
(34,457 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)are trying to shoo it. These men are not enjoying this, but the men who pay them could care less.
c-rational
(2,596 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Too heartbreaking. I just can't watch, if I can't do anything about it.
Blue Owl
(50,513 posts)And deforestation must stop...