In March an April this year, Greenpeace filmed a rainforest area in Indonesia - and uncovered a destruction in an unimaginable extent: For a palm oil plantation, a company has destroyed hectares of forest land - apparently supplying Nestlé, Mars, PepsiCo and Unilever.
These are recordings that affect you. From a helicopter perspective, a team from Greenpeace shows what is currently going on in Indonesia: A company is clearing up large areas of rainforest in the province of Papua - it is preparing a new palm oil plantation.
A total of 5000 hectares of rainforest were destroyed - an area half the size of Paris. Part of the rainforest is still standing, the contrast between the dense green forest on one side and the red-brown area with broken trunks on the other side is particularly depressing.
Watch the video here:
Palm oil industry looking for new land
"After destroying most of the rainforests of Sumatra and Kalimantan, the palm oil industry is now pushing to new areas like Papua," says Richard George of Greenpeace UK. In this case, it is the "Hayel Saeed Anam Group" (HSA Group) - a multinational that, according to Greenpeace, supplies the major food companies: Nestlé, Mars, PepsiCo and Unilever.
All four companies have actually issued guidelines according to which they should not use palm oil for which rainforest was cut down. The reality looks obviously different, as the British "Guardian" earlier complained.
Nestlé, Unilever, Mars and Co. are responsible
"Brands have been talking for over a decade about wanting to 'purify' their palm oil. Companies like Unilever and Nestlé claim to be leaders in the industry. Why are they still buying from forest destroyers like the HSA group? "Says Richard George of Greenpeace.
The big corporations blame the deforestation and other scandals on palm oil plantations time and again on the suppliers. There is also something to it: Because of the complex production and supply chains, it is in fact not always easy to understand from which areas bought palm oil comes from and whether forest was cut down.
When more people realise that such acts are not just the result of 'greed', but on some level are part of an agenda to destroy the planet due to the acting out of denied and unconscious hate/rage - we might see sales of these toxic products plummet.
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Where I live you can't even cut down a tree in your garden without planning permission yet large corporations can mow down our beautiful planet as they please!