Nowhere to Call Home
By Cindi Lynn Sheridan
News Briefing
In 1900, there were approximately 315,000 Orangutans in the wild, and today there are only about 60,000. This is a huge difference in a matter of only one hundred years. The main cause of this horrific reduction is the manufacturing of palm oil. Palm oil is one of the world’s most salient agricultural commodities, and is used in food ingredients and cooking oil.
Palm oil plantations are known to be the leading cause of rainforest deforestation. In Indonesia, an area of forest, the size of six football fields, is cut down every minute. Hundreds of species live in these rainforest, meaning this crisis is also having a large impact on them as well. It is like a cycle of destruction, which needs to come to a halt.
There are many effective ways to rectify the palm oil crisis. It is important to read labels when shopping because there are a large amount of names for palm oil. For
example, some products use the term “Sodium Laureth Sulphate” when referring to palm oil. Companies are disguising the labeling to make it difficult for shoppers, and to make sure that people do not realize that this manufacturing industry is having an affect on Orangutans and other animals. The palm oil industry needs to modify its structure in order to be less harmful on Orangutan’s living environment. With the help of people around the world anything can be possible to save these species. If not there expectancy of survival is only 10 more years.
The women in Egypt are not getting the rights that they were promised. Women have never had the same type of rights that men have always had.They want to be able to be part of government and be active in society. These things were promised to them and the women are now ready to see these promises followed through. These women fought long and hard during the revolution, they camped out and spent nights fighting to see themselves gain rights and be treated like equals.
These women fought long and hard during the revolution, they camped out and spent nights fighting to see themselves gain rights and be treated like equals.. A country needs all its people in order to be its best. There shouldn’t be a difference in treatment because of sex. The government needs to change and while this new constitution is made, women’s rights need to be written in.
Egypts Gender Inequality
By Chelsea Ann Smith
Above photo by Yasmeen Brownlee. Palm Oil Photo by Wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrote/