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Why should you care about the rainforest?

As you may be aware the rainforest is a beautiful placeBut its the things you dont know that effect you. The Brazilian Amazon provides more timber than any other tropical forest on our planet.

Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface now they cover a mere 6%Rainforest NowAll gone in less than 40 yearsIf we keep going the way we are goingRainforest FutureThen maybe we helpIf its not to lateNow a Little closer to home!

Even CadburysAre helping to destroy our Rainforests !!From This

To this

To this !! Palm oil fields as far as the eye can seeAnd who Suffers?

They do!!!So would you swap

ThisFor This

and its not ONLY The orangutansExperts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation.

But to be fair Its not only cadburys chocolate

These all contain palm oil tooRead the back of the PackAnd Save our RainforestsPalm Oil names, what to look out for:Sodium Laureth Sulphate (Can also be from coconut)Sodium Lauryl Sulphates (can also be from ricinus oil)Sodium dodecyl Sulphate (SDS or NaDS)PalmatePalm Oil KernalPalmitateCosmeticsElaeis GuineensisGlyceryl StearateStearic AcidChemicals which contain palm oilSteareth -2Steareth -20Sodium Lauryl SulphateSodium lauryl sulfoacetate (coconut and/or palm)Hydrated palm glyceridesSodium isostearoyl lactylaye (derived from vegetable stearic acid)Cetyl palmitate and octyl palmitate (and anything with palmitate at the end)

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