There are ways to grow oil palms in sustainable ways, but clearing large areas of forest growing on peat soils,
further endangering wildlife (the orangutan being the most prominent example), and destroying biodiversity in general is not the way to do it.
We must urgently step up international efforts to tackle the illegal
wildlife trade and strengthen the implementation of the CITES Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species, if we want to prevent the
further decline of these species.»