Borneo, an island on the Equator roughly the size of Texas, is home to Southeast Asia’s last intact forests. We should be outraged that this important ecosystem has been endangered by the rise of palm oil plantations.
Getting hold of palm oil means chopping down forests where the animals live, leading them to die out or come into contact with humans and then get killed.
The population of Bornean orangutans has already fallen by more than half over the last 60 years, according to the WWF. And last month, an endangered and rare Bornean orangutan was slaughtered, hacked to bits and eaten in Indonesia.
