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meaning these tragic impacts could soon be replicated
with Africa’s people and wildlife. The good news is the
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is helping to
transform world markets to make sustainably grown palm
oil the norm. Naples Zoo is a dues-paying member of the
RSPO. You can play your part by downloading an easy-
to-use, free app linked from www.napleszoo.org/palmoil.
With its barcode reader, the app quickly enables you to
distinguish sustainable from unsustainable companies
allowing you to support the many products that line up
with your ethics as a caring person. And the next time your
lathering up or grabbing that snack, you’ll know you’re
doing your part to keep a world where children can safely
breathe and leopards still walk jungle paths.

Far from the simple menageries of the past, today’s nationally
accredited zoos are centers of learning and natural crossroads
for biologists, educators, environmental scientists, and
winds up in our shopping carts plays a part in them losing their homes
researchers - as well as for students, conservationists, and
along with many iconic species like orangutans and tigers. That’s because
all animal lovers. Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens is
about half the packaged products at the grocery contain palm oil – from
an award-winning, private 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving
toothpaste and soap to chocolate and crackers. Sustainably grown palm
wildlife and families here and around the world. More
oil allows rare wildlife a place to live. But some companies still buy palm
information at www.napleszoo.org.
oil from plantations that clear-cut and burn rainforests contributing to
the direct and indirect deaths of untold numbers of
endangered species.

NOT JUST ANIMALS
The smoke from the burning forests reach far and
wide into cities causing air conditions classified as Very
Unhealthy. During the worst weeks of 2015 alone,
things were even worse as children were directed to
stay inside and sometimes schools and airports were
shut down. Many open-air businesses closed causing
financial crises for families. In one area of Indonesia,
air quality reached over three times the Hazardous
threshold causing an evacuation of all babies less than
six months. All told, likely more than 100,000 people
faced an early death from these effects.

SUPPORTING THE SOLUTION. USE THE APP.

As palm oil production expands outside of Asia to
meet demand, African forests are already being cleared