Palm Oil Problem | CNN Breaking News Video
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CNN’s Arwa Damon goes to the Indonesian island of Sumatra to look at some of the problems of palm oil production.
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Tripa peat swamps, once hosting the largest density of orangutan population in the world are now being exterminated by palm oil company working illegally. The last bits of the peat swamp forest are being smashed and sumatran orangutan are forced towards local extinction. are we witnessing the end of the icons? what are we doing about it?Categories
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