1. Endangered Orangutans
And the Palm Oil Industry

2. Case Study What is Palm Oil?
The most widely consumed vegetable oil on Earth
HALF of all packaged supermarket products have it
Demand is expected to triple by 2050

4. Consequences of Palm Oil Use
Video - Waking up on an Orangutan Island
Article – A Refuge for Orangutans and a Quandary for Environmentalists
As you read, list all of the reasons FOR or AGAINST working with the palm oil industry for establishing this orangutan refuge.

5. A Palm Oil Plantation

6. Palm
Fruit

7. Map of Borneo

8. Borneo Deforestation

9. Questions for Discussion
Should the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation accept funding from a major Indonesian palm oil company to support its orangutan refuge? Does their collaboration let the palm oil company off the hook for its destruction of orangutan habitat?
Are orangutan refuges counterproductive in the end, because the real goal should be to protect the remaining rain forest where orangutans live in the wild?
Or, is working with the palm oil industry the best way forward to save orangutans?

10. Consensus? Come to a GROUP consensus…
Write an ARGUMENT to defend your groups position.
Defend your position with EVIDENCE from the text.
Use the Argumentation Graphic Organizer for help in constructing your response
Submit your final argument as a group assignment on Canvas.