Environmental campaign threatens Solomons palm oil farmers
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The chocolate-maker Cadburys has bowed to pressure from consumer and environmental groups, saying it will no longer use palm oil in its dairy milk chocolate. Environmentalists had argued that palm oil plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia were encroaching on natural rainforest, destroying the natural habitat of orangutans. But landowners in Solomon Islands, says the campaign could harm growers in Pacific states, where there are no orangutans, and where oil palm plantations are managed more sustainably.
Presenter: Bruce Hill
Speaker: Landowners committee chairman James Votaia, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
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