Palm oil is in many products, from crackers to soap. The oil palm plant grows mainly in Borneo and Sumatra, home to tigers, sun bears, elephants and orangutans. Sadly, the industry poses a threat to these species, as much of it uses deforestation practices that greatly threaten their delicate habitat. As the oil palm can produce more oil per acre than any other plant, it is worth exploring a sustainable means of growing it.

You can help by looking at labels when you shop. Choose products that don't use palm oil, or that opt to use sustainable "orangutan friendly" palm oil. Explore companies that are part of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), and learn all you can about this complicated conservation issue.

Click Here for a list of palm oil free products and sustainable "orangutan friendly" palm oil.