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- 18 May 2009: OrangAid comedy benefit night, London, Monday 1st June
- 12 May 2009: 'Green' power plants may burn palm oil
- 05 May 2009: SOS at the Mad Hatters Tea Party
- 01 May 2009: Victims of the Oil Rush
British consumers are fuelling the rising demand for palm oil, speeding up the destruction of rainforests and killing off orangutans - 16 Apr 2009: Pet trade puts orangutans at risk
The trade in Sumatran orangutans for pets shows little sign of decline and is taking the species to the brink of extinction, a report concludes. - 09 Apr 2009: Jakarta to be hit by moves on illegal logging
- 09 Apr 2009: New orangutan population found on Borneo
- 03 Apr 2009: Prince Charles calls for emergency rainforest funding
Prince Charles tells world leaders that they must 'strain every sinew' to find ways to halt the destruction of forests across the world - 30 Mar 2009: Palm oil plantations are still worth more than saving a tree
- 27 Mar 2009: United Nations criticises Indonesia's response to Forests and Climate Change
Expansion of biofuels plantations and plans to market forest carbon fail to respect indigenous peoples' rights