{"id":358405,"date":"2010-02-24T09:51:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2010-02-24T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:51:59","slug":"unilever-drops-palm-oil-supplier-over-rain-forest-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358405","title":{"rendered":"Unilever drops palm oil supplier over rain forest destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/nature\/unilever-drops-major-palmoil-producer-1906474.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/00325\/palm-oil_325788t.jpg\" width=\"276\" align=\"left\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/climatewire\/2010\/02\/24\/8\/\" >ClimateWire<\/a>: Household goods company Unilever is dropping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Indonesia\">Indonesian<\/a> palm oil producer Duta Palma after employees were filmed clearing protected rain forest to make room for palm plantations.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time in three months Unilever is distancing itself from a palm oil producer as it seeks to ensure that its products do not contain ingredients from firms that endanger protected forests. The controversy also brings up new questions about Indonesian laws protecting the jungles and how active the industry is in preservation.<\/p>\n<p>Two months ago, Unilever canceled its contract with Indonesian company PT Smart after Greenpeace alleged it was destroying rain forests. PT Smart acknowledged &#8220;minor mistakes&#8221; and drafted stricter environmental controls.<\/p>\n<p>Duta Palma has made no comment about the allegations or BBC evidence. Unilever is the world&#8217;s biggest user of palm oil, an essential ingredient in more than half of the world&#8217;s best-selling foods as well as brands such as Dove soap.<\/p>\n<p>Both PT Smart and Duta Palma are members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, a group dedicated to protecting the rain forest and giving the palm oil industry a better public face. Many are concerned that palm oil producers are abusing the rain forest to make room for vast palm plantations. Environmentalists say that is endangering the homes of the orangutan and snow leopard, as well as destroying peat-rich land that releases<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Greenhouse_gas\"> greenhouse gases<\/a> (Martin Hickman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/nature\/unilever-drops-major-palmoil-producer-1906474.html\" >London <em>Independent<\/em><\/a>, Feb. 22). <strong>&#8211; JP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3148&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3148\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ClimateWire: Household goods company Unilever is dropping Indonesian palm oil producer Duta Palma after employees were filmed clearing protected rain forest to make room for palm plantations. This is the second time in three months Unilever is distancing itself from a palm oil producer as it seeks to ensure that its products do not contain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}