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I`m sure you remember the Dove Tv commercial version that is asking you to talk to your daughter before the industry does.

Well Greenpeace has something to say about all those actions.

The Unilever palm oil supplies are burning up so this it’s destroying Indonesia’s rainforests. Greenpeace got the proof: all these actions are causing forest destruction, species extinction and climate change.

Talk to Dove before they destroy Paradise Forests

Unilever, the makers of Dove beauty products, are buying palm oil from suppliers who destroy Indonesia’s rainforests. We’ve got the proof. They’re causing forest destruction, species extinction and climate change.

Together we can make the company stop destroying forests for palm oil.

This is a report “Burning up Borneo”, released April 2008, for the detailed scientific information of the campaign.

In November 2007, Greenpeace released Cooking the Climate, an 82-pagereport summarizing the findings of a two-year investigation that revealed how the world’s largest food, cosmetic and biofuel companies were driving the wholesale destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests and peat lands through growing palm oil consumption. This follow-up report provides further evidence of the expansion of the palm oil sector in Indonesia into remaining rainforests, orangutan habitat and peat lands in Kalimantan. It links the majority of the largest producers in Indonesia to Unilever, probably the largest palm oil corporate consumer in the world. Unilever uses 1.3Mt of palm oil or palm oil derivative every year – about 3% of global production.

1. About half of Unilever’s palm oil supply comes from Indonesia.

2. As recently as 2005, Unilever purchased 1 in every 20 tones produced in the country.

3. Unilever has failed to use its power to lead the palm oil sector toward sustainability, either through its own palm oil purchasing – its primary suppliers in Indonesia represent over a third of the country’s palm oil production.

4. – or through its role as leader of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO),whose members represent 40% of global palm oil production.

5. Through analysis of maps, satellite data, and on-the-ground investigations between February and April 2008, Greenpeace has mapped out how expansion of the oil palm plantations in Central Kalimantan is fueling climate change and helping drive orangutans to the brink of extinction. As Greenpeace investigations show, this expansion into the Indonesian territory of the island of Borneo has in large part been led by companies who are Unilever suppliers and RSPO member.

Here are some Unilever campaign questions and answers from Greenpeace.