Elephants and palm oil
Elephants and other animals native to Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem are suffering at the hands of the massive palm oil industry. If you can believe it, it’s currently estimated that around 300 football fields of rainforest are leveled to make way for palm oil plantations every hour.
Due to this destruction, elephant families have extreme difficulty finding adequate sources of food and water, rendering it nearly impossible to survive. Without forests to provide them with an ample supply of these necessities, elephants are forced onto palm oil plantations where they are viewed as “pests.” Most often, this means that they will be shot right on the spot, given there are only around 1,300 Sumatran elephants left in the wild, it is critical that we put an end to this completely unnecessary practice. The reality is, without their jungle home, these elephants will never be able to recover and there is a high probably that they will be extinct within our lifetimes.
Due to this destruction, elephant families have extreme difficulty finding adequate sources of food and water, rendering it nearly impossible to survive. Without forests to provide them with an ample supply of these necessities, elephants are forced onto palm oil plantations where they are viewed as “pests.” Most often, this means that they will be shot right on the spot, given there are only around 1,300 Sumatran elephants left in the wild, it is critical that we put an end to this completely unnecessary practice. The reality is, without their jungle home, these elephants will never be able to recover and there is a high probably that they will be extinct within our lifetimes.
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