Defend Wildlife, Rainforests, and Indigenous Communities! Fight HumanTrafficking and Forced Labor! Please sign this petition to urge your Senators and US Representative to stand up for Malaysia's crtiically endangered Borneo orangutans!


Dear Members of Congress:

Used for both fuel and food, palm oil is a growing global industry – one that is wiping out rainforests in Malaysia and Peru to replace them with African palm plantations; driving wildlife, including Borneo orangutans, pygmy elephants, and Malayan tigers to the brink of extinction; and displacing indigenous communities. The Malaysian palm oil trade obtains workers through human trafficking and uses forced labor, including refugees from the Rohingya Muslim community fleeing persecution in Burma. And by contributing to deforestation and forest fires, the palm oil trade is actually making climate change worse! The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive 12 nation trade deal, threatens to expand the harmful impacts of the palm oil trade by growing the market for this socially and environmentally destructive product via the elimination of import tariffs on palm oil in TPP member nations.

Please write back with a letter confirming that you plan to vote against the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I refuse to vote for any member of Congress who is not on record against this disastrous trade deal.