Protect Paradise: An Animation about Palm Oil

Palm oil is an ingredient in thousands of products we use every day. But palm oil has a dirty secret: forest destruction. Every year, thousands of hectares of Indonesian rainforest and peatlands - some of the most biodiverse regions on the planet - are being destroyed to make way for new palm oil plantations. We don't have to clear forests for palm oil - solutions exist and some companies are on track to supply clean, responsible palm oil. But we need to take urgent action.

We are calling on companies to guarantee their products are free from forest destruction. Clean, responsible palm oil is possible. Join the movement now, and help to Protect Paradise.

[albertpardameansibuea]

what a hypocrite, China, USA, UK, and rest of rich nation also do the deforestation in the past when they are into the rich.
When Indonesia want into the rich, they suddenly ask to stop what Indonesia doing, those rain forest didn't provide us MONEY.
If rest of the world want us to keep the rainforest intact, they should give us $ 350 Billion every year, after all it's a very cheap price consider that those rain forest is very important for the world.

[AquarielCharm]

That drawing was beautiful. Thank Greenpeace and the artist.

[TimpsterTheDude]

Palm oil is a wonder product, but the way we produce it is not sustainable. While we should not abolish this industry, we also should not let it take it's toll on valuable life, like this deforestation. There many other sustainable ways of producing it.

[ColourfulDaisies]

Nice story, nice drawings... but you cannot create a campaign by presenting a problem without giving any solutions (or in this case, alternatives).

Other products will have to be used to replace palm oil, and when you do not provide any information on these products and their impact on deforestation... the campaign is useless.

[PhilipDavidGleave]

Thank you for this :) creating more awareness :)

[BrowseMyChannel]

I love the name Greenpeace and all they do. Another name I love is the Rainbow Warrior .
Thanks to Greenpeace for their educational videos . We all should be sharing these videos on facebook and other  social medias.Peace2Uall.

[tamiahs]

There's an awesome app called Buycott which lets you scan product barcodes, or search for them and then tells you if the company that makes them is doing anything dodgy - e.g. using palm oil, destroying rainforests, etc. It's awesome - yay for informed choices!

[DanM]

Has it ever occured to these hippies why we use palm oil? Not only is it the most economical way of producing large amounts of consumable oil but pound for pound produces more oil than any other plant. What would we replace it with? and surely the replacements would use more land to get the same amount of oil?

[CashFruit]

Why focus on palm oil, why not land for livestock, etc, if we don’t use palm oil we will still need a replacement oil..

[yogayantra]

I have met Indonesian business... and I cannot imagine what it will take to neutralise these ruthless people

[jeffwessman]

Good info. Strange choice of music. A little "light" don't you think?

[theinvisiblegaijin]

ok.. did this video not elaborate, or I may have missed it. But what is this sustainable palm oil method? Could someone explain?

[SeanHolroyd]

"Yes we can",  make it to Paradise, because we have the power !

[MichelleThomasson]

Great graphic but the supermarket shopping background music is not appropriate - so much of our media is desensitizing please change the music, thanks Greenpeace

[doriesse]

Is this different from organic coconut oil?

[nshadow]

Ya! Our land is limited, we need to ops for the crop has highest yield per hectare. Palm oil is the best choice!
All friends, please wake-up. Rapeseed, corn, soy, sunflower and olive, all got no match against palm oil as greenest source of edible oil and renewable energy.

[WhiteRhino.]

I'm confused, If we're planting trees after the rain forest is removed, whats the big deal?

[CoconutsTV]

Important message and awesome animation skills.

[lawinetka]

That was really impressive and artisticly amazing! :)

[cassieklein]

I really wish this video mentioned how we can help. "join a movement" is great, but most people wouldn't know where to start. Maybe the RSPO app by Cheyanne Mountain Zoo?