SOS Campaigns
Please support our campaigns on critical issues which are threatening orangutans and their last remaining habitat. Each campaign action will only take a few minutes, and adding your voice to these calls for change will make a big difference.
**URGENT - Save Tripa **
The Tripa peat swamp forests in Sumatra - critical orangutan habitat - are being cleared for oil palm plantations. Once home to a population of 3,000 orangutans, there are now thought to be only 200 left. Please help.
Stop Biofuelling Deforestation: How your fuel bills are subsidising deforestation - and what you can do about it!
The UK
government is considering offering subsidies to power stations to burn biofuels
- including palm oil - for heat and power.
These subsidies, called Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs), are the government's way of supporting renewable energy technologies, as part of plans to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions. Nobody would deny that we need more investment in renewables, but as well as supporting clean technologies such as wind farms, ROCs also finance electricity generation from the burning of bioliquids such as palm oil. On top of the threat that this increase in demand for fuel crops poses to tropical forests and biodiversity, some biofuels have been shown to actually lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
And what's more, this is being funded through our fuel bills!
Please support our campaign which calls on the Government to abandon subsidies for environmentally destructive biofuels. Write to the Department for Energy and Climate Change today.
