Palm oil is burning Borneo. What can travellers do about it?

Borneo is burning. Orang utans are being made extinct and their once beautiful natural habitat is being destroyed by greed and the relentless expansion of the palm oil industry. As travellers all over south east Asia deal with the aftermath of the haze, very few realise that palm oil is the driving force behind this man made and premeditated natural catastrophe, and no one is doing a damn thing about it.

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