Protect the Leuser Ecosystem

Our undercover investigators have discovered illegal palm oil operations in the Leuser Ecosystem: a critical, protected Indonesian rainforest that is home to the last tigers, elephants, rhinos, sunbears and orangutans coexisting in the wild.

Major global brands like Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz and Nissin Foods are fueling this illegal and destructive trade — please help us stop them.

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Consumer Goods Forum

To The Consumer Goods Forum:

Despite the CGF’s claims of scaling up individual and collective action to address deforestation through a “Forest Positive Approach,” its members have failed to stop sourcing illegally produced palm oil that destroyed carbon-rich peat swamps in the Leuser Ecosystem.

Shockingly, deforestation is on the rise, not falling, in the protected Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve in the Leuser Ecosystem. The driver of this destruction is Conflict Palm Oil. Illegal deforestation on peat swamps has persisted after the December 2015 cut-off date adopted by most of the Consumer Goods Forum members.

RAN’s latest investigation proves that palm oil produced in this protected nature reserve in violation of deforestation-free commitments continues to make its way into the products sold by Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz, Nestlé, Unilever, PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, Ferrero, Nissin Foods and other CGF members.

The “Forest Positive Approach” will be written off by consumers as greenwash until its members can prove they have stopped sourcing deforestation-fueled palm oil grown at the expense of Indonesia’s most precious intact forest landscapes –– including the Leuser Ecosystem.

The CGF must stop the carbon bombs in its members’ palm oil supply chains and scale up investments to protect the Leuser Ecosystem.

Kind Regards,

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