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Palm oil is the most extensively used oil in the world; it is in over half of our supermarket products and is widely used for cooking. However the first thing you will find if you try and research it is the mass controversy surrounding it. So much controversy has been caused lately because of the mass deforestation in Indonesia. The oil is invaluable due to its versatile properties, high yielding plants and relatively cheap production. The problem ensued from this however is that large companies have realised this potential and are trying to increase production. As a crop that can only grow within 8 degrees of the equator, much of the prime plantation area is the rainforest, especially in Indonesia. Large companies are trying to gain from palm oil production by making more and more plantations in Indonesia. The issue raised here is that areas prime for growth is rainforest; plantations in Indonesia are destroying the rainforest, killing orang-utans and obliterating the natural habitat for multiple animals and flora and fauna. As a country Australia also has a heavy reliance on the oil, annually importing approximately 130,000 tonnes which requires a plantation 5.5 times the size of Manhattan to meet that need. The fact is that palm oil is needed but the way in which it is produced is needed to change. It has been predicted that up to 300 football fields worth of rainforest is cleared every hour, production in Indonesia has to stop and the best way to stop destroying this valuable rainforest, is to take the plant back to its native West Africa. It cannot be replaced so it has to be resourced. Palm oil is actually not native to Indonesia; it is from West Africa but was moved across for the promise of profit. Ever since production was moved across in the 1920s, the Indonesian environment and the wildlife have been destroyed. Indonesia has quickly become the world’s third-leading producer of carbon emissions that scientists believe are responsible for global warming so it is not just wildlife which is being affected but this destructive culture is affecting everyone. Capital Alternatives are an ethical alternative investment company who have the worlds answer to the deforestation of Indonesia at the expense of the need for palm oil. By taking the production back to West Africa, the Indonesian rainforest can avoid further destruction. A Palm Oil Investment with Capital Alternatives focuses not only on the returns that can be gained, but also looks to make a difference in areas that it operates. This particular project uses neglected plantations and redevelops them into lucrative land. This not only moves the harmful production from Indonesia but it also guarantees that no further rainforests are destroyed as it is currently unused land, bringing productivity, jobs and a surge of wealth to the area. Palm oil cannot be boycott; its properties make it invaluable. The demand for this oil is also huge and increasing daily. An investment in this market is always a profitable one, yet an investment with Capital Alternatives is not only profitable, but ethical. Helping to save the Indonesian Rainforest and take Palm Oil back to where it belongs.
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