{"id":40544,"date":"2018-05-10T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/10\/palm-oil-is-wiping-out-orangutans-despite-multinationals-promises-chris-packham\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:50:40","slug":"palm-oil-is-wiping-out-orangutans-despite-multinationals-promises-chris-packham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=40544","title":{"rendered":"Palm oil is wiping out orangutans \u2013 despite multinationals\u2019 promises | Chris Packham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the world\u2019s biggest companies are failing in their pledge to stop deforestation by 2020. Don\u2019t let them forget itFew who watch the documentary Red Ape: Saving the Orangutan tonight on BBC2 could fail to feel some sense of responsibility for the desperate situation faced by Indonesia\u2019s orangutans. These extraordinary creatures are our closest relatives, sharing 97% of our DNA. Their similarity to us is astonishing. They are intelligent, inquisitive, smile and show empathy. They even laugh when tickled, like us, when most other animals have evolved to be ticklish only in an itchy, irritating sort of way as a protective reflex. Encountering orangutans in the wild is like nothing else I\u2019ve experienced.They once thrived in Indonesia\u2019s lush, green rainforests but over the last 50 years they have been forced from their home and killed. In the last 16 years alone, 100,000 Bornean orangutans have been lost. All three species \u2013 Bornean, Sumatran and the Tapanuli, a species discovered only last year \u2013 are now on the critically endangered list. The reason? It started in the 1960s as forests were logged for timber, but now it\u2019s palm oil. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/may\/10\/palm-oil-orangutans-multinationals-promises-deforestation\" target=\"_blank\">Palm oil is wiping out orangutans \u2013 despite multinationals\u2019 promises | Chris Packham<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the world\u2019s biggest companies are failing in their pledge to stop deforestation by 2020. Don\u2019t let them forget itFew who watch the documentary Red Ape: Saving the Orangutan tonight on BBC2 could fail to feel some sense of responsibility for the desperate situation faced by Indonesia\u2019s orangutans. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}