Indulge this Easter – but keep it Palm Oil Free

For many people, Easter is a time for some seriously good chocolate consumption!

If you are a chocolate lover, purchasing Easter goodies for yourselves, your family, friends and/or workmates, Auckland Zoo is encouraging you to use its Palm Oil Free Easter Goodie Guide, available at its website www.aucklandzoo.co.nz All the products listed in it are totally palm oil-free.

Auckland Zoo believes the key problem with palm oil is where it is being grown.

Currently, the clearing of rainforests in South East Asia to make way for oil palm plantations is destroying precious habitat and posing a threat to hundreds of animal species including the orangutan, Sumatran tiger, Asian rhino and Asian elephant. In fact, at the current rate of deforestation, these species could be extinct in the wild by 2022, and many more could follow if this continues.

Along with its Palm Oil Free Easter Goodie Guide, the Zoo’s website also has a Palm Oil Free Shopping Guide (featuring a wide range of palm oil free supermarket products) and a useful wallet-sized information card that includes the various names that palm oil can be listed as.

Palm oil is now used in at least one out of every 10 supermarket products, but there are still lots of products on offer to consumers that are palm oil-free.

Auckland Zoo believes the only way to slow palm oil expansion is to avoid or reduce palm oil consumption.

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