Probably the best way to describe earth today. It was overwhelming to see so many posts on #Earthday, promising all good things, but often such promises get lost in the face of everyday humdrum. People ask ‘What difference can I make when the mighty cogs of policy and politics are still focussed towards drilling for fossil fuels?’

But we all CAN make a difference. If we know about the impact we have on our species and ecosystems, we CAN offset a whole lot through our lifestyle choices. The choices we make MATTER; to the animals, plants, people and our planet. Here are 5 suggestions

1. Eat less meat. It means less land for animal husbandry which equates to more forests! Did you know that 1 cheeseburger costs 66 gallons of water to produce? ONE burger.

2. Reuse. #Recycle. All. The. time. Don’t use plastic unless you ABSOLUTELY have to.

3. Say NO to products DIRECTLY responsible for decimating our rainforests. Palm oil is a good example. Often disguised as vegetable oil or any of its 20 other names, WWF advises consumers to look for the RSPO label or the Green Palm Label to ensure the product is sustainably sourced 🌴

4. Say NO to products with a large carbon footprint –just check the label about the product’s origin. Do you really need tomatoes from Brazil every day?

5. Say NO to all #wildlife products – no to shark fin soup, no to whale meat, no to ivory trinkets, no to tiger bone wine and no to bear bile

It’s unreasonable for us to give up all ways of modernity & make drastic changes overnight. But, smaller changes can reap benefits if done conscientiously & consistently. We all need to pick the things we will do from now on and stick to them. It’s also time to have these conversations with friends & family, even if they become prickly. #letsdothis

FYI - this is #jokulsarlon in #Iceland, where you can see massive icebergs breaking away from the Vatnajokull glacier and melting into the Atlantic. A microcosm for our warming world. Beautiful & haunting

For more nature and wildlife photos check out my instagram:

www.instagram.com/poulomee_basu_photography

This photo is from an investigative report from Rainforest Action Network that presents evidence that Cargill is operating two undisclosed palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Open burning in a newly cleared rainforest at Duta Palma's PT Ledo Lestari palm oil plantation. West Kalimantan, Borneo. 2009.

My cancelled phuket trip had made me made a last minutre trip to the nearby Malaysia....

Click

hereto see the map in pdf.

.:Taken from From www.premiumoutlets.com.my/company-profile.

About Johor Premium Outlet

Johor Premium Outlets is a collection of 80 designer and name brand outlet stores featuring saving of 25% to 65% every day. The center is held by "Genting Simon Sdn Bhd" (GSSB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Simon Genting Ltd ("SGL"). SGL in turn is a 50:50 joint venture between Azzon Ltd ("Azzon"), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Genting Plantations Bhd, and Premium Outlets®, the outlet division of Simon Property Group.

Johor Premium Outlets is located at the intersection of the North-South Expressway and the Second Link Expressway. With the Bandar Indahpura, Kulai-Second Link Expressway Interchange expected to be completed in October 2011, Johor Premium Outlets will be highly accessible to all traffic going to and from Johor and Singapore. Johor Premium Outlets is also a short distance drive from Senai International Airport, about 3 hours' drive from Kuala Lumpur and about an hour's drive from the city of Singapore.

Johor Premium Outlets is targeting a wide range of shoppers including area residents as well as international visitors from South East Asia. It will also serve as a hub between Resorts World Genting, which is about 3.5 hours drive and Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore, which is about an hour's drive from Johor Premium Outlets.

Premium Outlets® is a portfolio of outlet shopping centers which brings together the finest brands in unique outdoor settings and offers impressive savings of 25 to 65 percent every day. Each center is a shopping attraction and destination in its own right offering:

Factory-direct savings of 25% to 65% every day

A distinctive, upscale store mix of leading designers and quality name brands

A location that is easily accessible and near other attractions

An attractive setting making shopping an exciting and pleasant experience for the whole family

Genting Berhad, its subsidiaries and affiliates operating under the Genting Group, is recognised as one of Asia's leading and best managed multinationals. There are currently 5 public companies listed in 3 jurisdictions that operate under the 'Genting' name. These public companies and their subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in various businesses, including leisure and hospitality, power generation, oil palm plantation, property development, biotechnology and oil & gas. Collectively, they have over 58,000 employees, 4,500 hectares of prime resort and about 133,000 hectares of plantation land.

Genting Plantations, a 54.6%-owned subsidiary of Genting Berhad, commenced operations in 1980. It has a landbank of about 66,000 hectares in Malaysia and is developing more than 85,000 hectares in Indonesia through joint ventures. It owns 6 oil mills, with a total milling capacity of 265 tonnes per hour. Reputed as one of the lowest cost palm oil producers, Genting Plantations is one of the early members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

Genting Plantations has also diversified into property development to unlock the value of its strategically-located landbank and has invested significantly in biotechnology in a major effort to apply genomics to increase crop productivity and sustainability. For more information, visit www.gentingplantations.com.

Simon Property Group, Inc. is an S&P 500 company and the largest real estate company in the U.S. The Company currently owns or has an interest in 392 retail real estate properties comprising 262 million square feet of gross leasable area in North America, Europe and Asia. Simon Property Group is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and employs more than 5,000 people worldwide. The Company's common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol SPG. For further information, visit the Simon Property Group website at www.simon.com.

Premium Outlets® is the outlet division of Simon Property Group and is based in Roseland, New Jersey. The Premium Outlets® portfolio includes 70 Premium Outlet Centers® including 57 in the United States, one in Puerto Rico, eight in Japan, two in Korea, one in Malaysia and one in Mexico as well as additional outlet centers for a total of 82 properties.

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Lafcadio surrounded by oil palms.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

This photo is from an investigative report from Rainforest Action Network that presents evidence that Cargill is operating two undisclosed palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

The destruction of primary rainforest by Duta Palma. West Kalimantan, Borneo. Cargill was a key purchaser of palm oil from this notorious rainforest destroyer up until 2008.

Selling by the bag - Palm Oil (camera-phone)

Unsustainable palm oil is the single greatest threat to the future of gibbons and orangutans in the wild. Forest clearance for oil palm plantations is moving at an incredible speed. When George Bush visted Indonesia recently he pledged support for the Indonesian palm oil industry in support of the development of biofuels... does he know the impacts of palm oil on natural forest? Does he know that by clearing natural forest for oil palm the carbon released is 65 times greater than the amount of carbon that can be fixed annually by those plantation trees? These figures just don't add up when the max lifespan of an oil palm is about 30 years...

This is a serious worry.

Why do politicians keep screwing things up?

There's a whole load of degraded land in Indonesia that would benefit from oil palm development, but whilst many in the industry are willing to clear forest for windfall timber revenues then the industry continues to have a net negative impact on global climate, biodiversity and often land rights of traditional people. All these problems on a supermarket shelf.

You might not know this but palm oil is present in 1 in 10 UK supermarket products. It is often labelled as vegetable oil, so you can't avoid it.

There is some hope here: www.rspo.org

Find out more here: www.protopage.com/films4conservation

RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness team spent three weeks visiting some of Indonesia’s most controversial palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Borneo and meeting with Indonesian ally organizations such as Sawit Watch, Walhi and Lembaga Gemawan. The team also attended the annual Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Jakarta to network with key industry players and help shape the discussions on the much needed reforms of the palm oil industry. Read more about the trip here.

This photo is from an investigative report from Rainforest Action Network that presents evidence that Cargill is operating two undisclosed palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Land clearing at PT Indo Sawit Kekal. 2010. Photo: David Gilbert/RAN

This photo is from an investigative report from Rainforest Action Network that presents evidence that Cargill is operating two undisclosed palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Crude palm oil tanker truck inside Cargill's PT Harapan Sawit Lestari plantation. Borneo, 2009.

Disappointed community members watching an excavator tearing down and digging a drainage canal in one of the last areas of natural forest remaining in the buffer zone of the park. In the same passing moments that we watched, horrified, an irreplaceable, high density plot of biodiversity falling before our eyes, two FNPF staff yelled for us to look up and see the two horn bills flying over head and the rare red langur monkey peering at us through the trees.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

My cancelled phuket trip had made me made a last minutre trip to the nearby Malaysia....

Click

hereto see the map in pdf.

.:Taken from From www.premiumoutlets.com.my/company-profile.

About Johor Premium Outlet

Johor Premium Outlets is a collection of 80 designer and name brand outlet stores featuring saving of 25% to 65% every day. The center is held by "Genting Simon Sdn Bhd" (GSSB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Simon Genting Ltd ("SGL"). SGL in turn is a 50:50 joint venture between Azzon Ltd ("Azzon"), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Genting Plantations Bhd, and Premium Outlets®, the outlet division of Simon Property Group.

Johor Premium Outlets is located at the intersection of the North-South Expressway and the Second Link Expressway. With the Bandar Indahpura, Kulai-Second Link Expressway Interchange expected to be completed in October 2011, Johor Premium Outlets will be highly accessible to all traffic going to and from Johor and Singapore. Johor Premium Outlets is also a short distance drive from Senai International Airport, about 3 hours' drive from Kuala Lumpur and about an hour's drive from the city of Singapore.

Johor Premium Outlets is targeting a wide range of shoppers including area residents as well as international visitors from South East Asia. It will also serve as a hub between Resorts World Genting, which is about 3.5 hours drive and Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore, which is about an hour's drive from Johor Premium Outlets.

Premium Outlets® is a portfolio of outlet shopping centers which brings together the finest brands in unique outdoor settings and offers impressive savings of 25 to 65 percent every day. Each center is a shopping attraction and destination in its own right offering:

Factory-direct savings of 25% to 65% every day

A distinctive, upscale store mix of leading designers and quality name brands

A location that is easily accessible and near other attractions

An attractive setting making shopping an exciting and pleasant experience for the whole family

Genting Berhad, its subsidiaries and affiliates operating under the Genting Group, is recognised as one of Asia's leading and best managed multinationals. There are currently 5 public companies listed in 3 jurisdictions that operate under the 'Genting' name. These public companies and their subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in various businesses, including leisure and hospitality, power generation, oil palm plantation, property development, biotechnology and oil & gas. Collectively, they have over 58,000 employees, 4,500 hectares of prime resort and about 133,000 hectares of plantation land.

Genting Plantations, a 54.6%-owned subsidiary of Genting Berhad, commenced operations in 1980. It has a landbank of about 66,000 hectares in Malaysia and is developing more than 85,000 hectares in Indonesia through joint ventures. It owns 6 oil mills, with a total milling capacity of 265 tonnes per hour. Reputed as one of the lowest cost palm oil producers, Genting Plantations is one of the early members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

Genting Plantations has also diversified into property development to unlock the value of its strategically-located landbank and has invested significantly in biotechnology in a major effort to apply genomics to increase crop productivity and sustainability. For more information, visit www.gentingplantations.com.

Simon Property Group, Inc. is an S&P 500 company and the largest real estate company in the U.S. The Company currently owns or has an interest in 392 retail real estate properties comprising 262 million square feet of gross leasable area in North America, Europe and Asia. Simon Property Group is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and employs more than 5,000 people worldwide. The Company's common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol SPG. For further information, visit the Simon Property Group website at www.simon.com.

Premium Outlets® is the outlet division of Simon Property Group and is based in Roseland, New Jersey. The Premium Outlets® portfolio includes 70 Premium Outlet Centers® including 57 in the United States, one in Puerto Rico, eight in Japan, two in Korea, one in Malaysia and one in Mexico as well as additional outlet centers for a total of 82 properties.

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Rainforest Action Network's policy and research advisor Bill Barclay visited the rainforests of Borneo on vacation after the RSPO General Assembly in 2011.

Photo by: Bill Barclay

Learn more about the RSPO: RAN Staff Finds Deforestation And Violence For Palm Oil Unchecked By The RSPO

My cancelled phuket trip had made me made a last minutre trip to the nearby Malaysia....

Click

hereto see the map in pdf.

Technical Details

Camera Used: Nikon D7000

Lens Used: Tokina 11-16 f2.8

Software used for post processing: CS5

Techniques used: Single raw.

Tripod: Nope, Handheld shot

Model: Fellow friend, Danel !

.:Taken from From www.premiumoutlets.com.my/company-profile.

About Johor Premium Outlet

Johor Premium Outlets is a collection of 80 designer and name brand outlet stores featuring saving of 25% to 65% every day. The center is held by "Genting Simon Sdn Bhd" (GSSB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Simon Genting Ltd ("SGL"). SGL in turn is a 50:50 joint venture between Azzon Ltd ("Azzon"), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Genting Plantations Bhd, and Premium Outlets®, the outlet division of Simon Property Group.

Johor Premium Outlets is located at the intersection of the North-South Expressway and the Second Link Expressway. With the Bandar Indahpura, Kulai-Second Link Expressway Interchange expected to be completed in October 2011, Johor Premium Outlets will be highly accessible to all traffic going to and from Johor and Singapore. Johor Premium Outlets is also a short distance drive from Senai International Airport, about 3 hours' drive from Kuala Lumpur and about an hour's drive from the city of Singapore.

Johor Premium Outlets is targeting a wide range of shoppers including area residents as well as international visitors from South East Asia. It will also serve as a hub between Resorts World Genting, which is about 3.5 hours drive and Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore, which is about an hour's drive from Johor Premium Outlets.

Premium Outlets® is a portfolio of outlet shopping centers which brings together the finest brands in unique outdoor settings and offers impressive savings of 25 to 65 percent every day. Each center is a shopping attraction and destination in its own right offering:

Factory-direct savings of 25% to 65% every day

A distinctive, upscale store mix of leading designers and quality name brands

A location that is easily accessible and near other attractions

An attractive setting making shopping an exciting and pleasant experience for the whole family

Genting Berhad, its subsidiaries and affiliates operating under the Genting Group, is recognised as one of Asia's leading and best managed multinationals. There are currently 5 public companies listed in 3 jurisdictions that operate under the 'Genting' name. These public companies and their subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in various businesses, including leisure and hospitality, power generation, oil palm plantation, property development, biotechnology and oil & gas. Collectively, they have over 58,000 employees, 4,500 hectares of prime resort and about 133,000 hectares of plantation land.

Genting Plantations, a 54.6%-owned subsidiary of Genting Berhad, commenced operations in 1980. It has a landbank of about 66,000 hectares in Malaysia and is developing more than 85,000 hectares in Indonesia through joint ventures. It owns 6 oil mills, with a total milling capacity of 265 tonnes per hour. Reputed as one of the lowest cost palm oil producers, Genting Plantations is one of the early members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

Genting Plantations has also diversified into property development to unlock the value of its strategically-located landbank and has invested significantly in biotechnology in a major effort to apply genomics to increase crop productivity and sustainability. For more information, visit www.gentingplantations.com.

Simon Property Group, Inc. is an S&P 500 company and the largest real estate company in the U.S. The Company currently owns or has an interest in 392 retail real estate properties comprising 262 million square feet of gross leasable area in North America, Europe and Asia. Simon Property Group is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and employs more than 5,000 people worldwide. The Company's common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol SPG. For further information, visit the Simon Property Group website at www.simon.com.

Premium Outlets® is the outlet division of Simon Property Group and is based in Roseland, New Jersey. The Premium Outlets® portfolio includes 70 Premium Outlet Centers® including 57 in the United States, one in Puerto Rico, eight in Japan, two in Korea, one in Malaysia and one in Mexico as well as additional outlet centers for a total of 82 properties.

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Cargill’s cocoa & chocolate business has launched a new range of sustainable coatings and fillings for the European market, offering UTZ-​Certified cocoa powder and Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certified palm and palm kernel products.

Watching a huge batch of fresh palm oil fruit bunches getting dumped into the storage facility. A sea of palm oil in the background.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

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A fisherman at sunset off the coast of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

A woman and her two children from the Sekonyer Community. Her husband was our chef on the boat.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness team spent three weeks visiting some of Indonesia’s most controversial palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Borneo and meeting with Indonesian ally organizations such as Sawit Watch, Walhi and Lembaga Gemawan. The team also attended the annual Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Jakarta to network with key industry players and help shape the discussions on the much needed reforms of the palm oil industry. Read more about the trip here.

BW Plantations on deep peat.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness team spent three weeks visiting some of Indonesia’s most controversial palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Borneo and meeting with Indonesian ally organizations such as Sawit Watch, Walhi and Lembaga Gemawan. The team also attended the annual Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Jakarta to network with key industry players and help shape the discussions on the much needed reforms of the palm oil industry. Read more about the trip here.

Safruddin, forest campaigner at Save Our Borneo, shares social media networks and online resources with Ashley.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

Rainforest Action Network's policy and research advisor Bill Barclay visited the rainforests of Borneo on vacation after the RSPO General Assembly in 2011.

Photo by: Bill Barclay

Learn more about the RSPO: RAN Staff Finds Deforestation And Violence For Palm Oil Unchecked By The RSPO

Rainforest Action Network's policy and research advisor Bill Barclay visited the rainforests of Borneo on vacation after the RSPO General Assembly in 2011.

Photo by: Bill Barclay

Learn more about the RSPO: RAN Staff Finds Deforestation And Violence For Palm Oil Unchecked By The RSPO

BW Plantation's oil palm atop carbon rich peatlands. Basuki believes this is 3M deep peat which is why the palm trees are all falling over, there is a drainage canal and a need for big machinery to compact the soil constantly.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

Tuyan - FNPF staff and one of our friendly guides (part of the Sekonyer Community) with his son.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness team spent three weeks visiting some of Indonesia’s most controversial palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Borneo and meeting with Indonesian ally organizations such as Sawit Watch, Walhi and Lembaga Gemawan. The team also attended the annual Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Jakarta to network with key industry players and help shape the discussions on the much needed reforms of the palm oil industry. Read more about the trip here.

RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness team spent three weeks visiting some of Indonesia’s most controversial palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Borneo and meeting with Indonesian ally organizations such as Sawit Watch, Walhi and Lembaga Gemawan. The team also attended the annual Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Jakarta to network with key industry players and help shape the discussions on the much needed reforms of the palm oil industry. Read more about the trip here.

Central Kalimantan, Borneo 2005

Film still from "Minyak atau Orangutan?"

Cockroach Productions' Orangutan Film Protection Project.

An orangutan in shock. This female has just been rescued by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. She is undernourished and suffering from a knife attack sustained when in a oil palm plantation. Oil palm plantations are spreading rapidly, clearing primary forest and destroying orangutan habitat. Palm oil is found in 10% of supermarket products in the UK. Since we began our work and our lobbying we have achieved 95% of supermarket sector signing up to the RSPO and principles of sustainability. Hopefully this will have some impact. Meanwhile we are distributing local language training films in the oil palm plantations through our friends at GAFI.

It is sobering and terrible to think that in the time we have been working on these projects as many as 12,000 orangutans may have died in Borneo and Sumatra... 20% of the populations (two species)...

Find out more about our work at:

www.films4.org

A truck carrying fresh palm oil fruit bunches passing us.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

Exquisitely colored tropical crabs in the fish market, Kota Kinabalu. 75% of the coral biodiversity known to science exists off the coast of Sabah, NE tip of Borneo.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

Watching a huge batch of fresh palm oil fruit bunches getting dumped into the storage facility. A sea of palm oil in the background.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

This photo is from an investigative report from Rainforest Action Network that presents evidence that Cargill is operating two undisclosed palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

The destruction of primary rainforests for palm oil is a critical threat to Borneo’s forest peoples, biodiversity, and the climate. Palm oil expansion, West Kalimantan. 2009.

RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness team spent three weeks visiting some of Indonesia’s most controversial palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Borneo and meeting with Indonesian ally organizations such as Sawit Watch, Walhi and Lembaga Gemawan. The team also attended the annual Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Jakarta to network with key industry players and help shape the discussions on the much needed reforms of the palm oil industry. Read more about the trip here.

RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness team spent three weeks visiting some of Indonesia’s most controversial palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Borneo and meeting with Indonesian ally organizations such as Sawit Watch, Walhi and Lembaga Gemawan. The team also attended the annual Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Jakarta to network with key industry players and help shape the discussions on the much needed reforms of the palm oil industry. Read more about the trip here.

Jakarta rice fields

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness team spent three weeks visiting some of Indonesia’s most controversial palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Borneo and meeting with Indonesian ally organizations such as Sawit Watch, Walhi and Lembaga Gemawan. The team also attended the annual Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Jakarta to network with key industry players and help shape the discussions on the much needed reforms of the palm oil industry. Read more about the trip here.

This photo is from an investigative report from Rainforest Action Network that presents evidence that Cargill is operating two undisclosed palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Mature palm oil plantation at Cargill's PT Harapan Sawit Lestari. Borneo, 2009. Photo: David Gilbert/RAN

On the edge of a community agroforestry project designed to demonstrate an alternative to destructive monoculture in an area almost entirely razed by palm oil plantations.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

Rainforest Action Network's policy and research advisor Bill Barclay visited the rainforests of Borneo on vacation after the RSPO General Assembly in 2011.

Photo by: Bill Barclay

Learn more about the RSPO: RAN Staff Finds Deforestation And Violence For Palm Oil Unchecked By The RSPO

RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness team spent three weeks visiting some of Indonesia’s most controversial palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Borneo and meeting with Indonesian ally organizations such as Sawit Watch, Walhi and Lembaga Gemawan. The team also attended the annual Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Jakarta to network with key industry players and help shape the discussions on the much needed reforms of the palm oil industry. Read more about the trip here.

This photo is from an investigative report from Rainforest Action Network that presents evidence that Cargill is operating two undisclosed palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Pak Ladup at PT HSL, 2009. Photo: David Gilbert

Old growth!

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

Protest sign on the edge of the Sekonyer community.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

We saw hundreds of Macaque monkeys along the Sekonyer River near Tanjung Puting National Park. They would sleep on the west side of the river and sit high in the trees for sunrise and sunset in clusters; they swim across the river to the east side in groups to avoid getting eaten by crocodiles.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

Rainforest Action Network's policy and research advisor Bill Barclay visited the rainforests of Borneo on vacation after the RSPO General Assembly in 2011.

Photo by: Bill Barclay

Learn more about the RSPO: RAN Staff Finds Deforestation And Violence For Palm Oil Unchecked By The RSPO

RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness team spent three weeks visiting some of Indonesia’s most controversial palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Borneo and meeting with Indonesian ally organizations such as Sawit Watch, Walhi and Lembaga Gemawan. The team also attended the annual Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Jakarta to network with key industry players and help shape the discussions on the much needed reforms of the palm oil industry. Read more about the trip here.

A rainbow over Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

A delegation from RAN's agribusiness team attended the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to advocate for human rights and land tenure rights, promote zero deforestation commitments, and demonstrate the need for value chain safeguards. After the RSPO conference Lafcadio Cortesi and Ashley Schaeffer visited Tanjung Puting National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of the last strongholds of the endangered orangutan. The team toured an area of active deforestation and tense social conflict involving the company PT Bumi Lenggeng, a subsidiary of BW Plantation - an RSPO member company that operates about 100,000 ha. of oil palm plantations in Central and Eastern Kalimantan.

Read more: From The field: Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park And The High Stakes Of The Palm Oil Crisis

Rainforest Action Network's policy and research advisor Bill Barclay visited the rainforests of Borneo on vacation after the RSPO General Assembly in 2011.

Photo by: Bill Barclay

Learn more about the RSPO: RAN Staff Finds Deforestation And Violence For Palm Oil Unchecked By The RSPO

Rainforest Action Network's policy and research advisor Bill Barclay visited the rainforests of Borneo on vacation after the RSPO General Assembly in 2011.

Photo by: Bill Barclay

Learn more about the RSPO: RAN Staff Finds Deforestation And Violence For Palm Oil Unchecked By The RSPO