Orang-Utans And Palm Oil

EDM number 86A2 in 2008-09, proposed by Rudi Vis on 15/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Animal welfare and Environmental protection.

leave out from `welcomes' to end and add `deplores the failure of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to act against members who continue to convert forest lands and peatlands to oil palm plantations; further notes the value of tropical peatlands in protecting rare megafauna such as the orang-utan, and the carbon dioxide emissions when such land is drained to support plantations of any kind; and urges the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia to rescind all licences for new plantations on peatland and implement a moratorium on further forest conversions to monoculture plantations.'.

This is a ammendment to 86.

This motion has been signed by a total of 2 MPs.