As rainforest habitats are destroyed for palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia, Indonesian and Chinese oil palm processing companies are switching focus towards Papua New Guinea, West Papua, Africa and South America to keep up with demand for palm oil.
Papua New Guinea and West Papua were divided up and taken by Indonesian colonial forces in the middle of last century. Yet for the ancestral indigenous owners of the islands of Papua and Melanesia, the Papuans who have lived the region for thousands of years -they simply call this region – home. Read more about this at the bottom of this page.
#WestPapua is home to unusual #animals like tree #kangaroo 🦘 and Papuan #eagle 🦅 The region was taken by force by #Indonesia Forest treasures belong to indigenous peoples NOT #palmoil co’s. Resist! #FreeWestPapua and #BoycottPalmOil 🌴⛔️ @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/26/papua-new-guinea/
#PapuaNewGuinea and #WestPapua is home to weirdly cute animals you may never get to see 😭😿 because #palmoil #deforestation threatens the lives of #indigenous people and #wildlife there. Take action #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🚫 @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/26/papua-new-guinea/
“When our forests are damaged, there will be a massive climate crisis, species like the birds of paradise will become extinct and not just our Namblong Indigenous culture will be destroyed, but that of all peoples everywhere,”
Orpha Yoshua, an Indigenous Namblong woman from West Papua told Greenpeace.
https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.jsEndless #deforestation and destruction of #rainforests in #Merauke #WestPapua goes on with silence and complicity by the western media. If you want to help #indigenous #Papuans #BoycottPalmOil in the supermarket!
— Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife (@palmoildetect.bsky.social) 19 November 2024 at 18:14
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Rainforest animals and rainforest peoples in Papua are under attack from global palm oil plantations and industrial-military actions on their illegally taken land
Indigenous Melanesian peoples of West Papua and Papua New Guinea are the rightful and original custodians of Papuan rainforests. Their voices deserve to be heard in environmental campaigns.
Yet Indonesia has embarked on an extensive greenwashing campaign to make these people invisible. Papuans never ceded sovreignty of their land and they have a right to have it back. Palm Oil Detectives works in solidarity with Melanesian and West Papuan support networks to raise the voices of Papuan indigenous activists.
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On Twitter, a South East Asian couple cosplay as Papuan indigenous traditional clothing in an obvious effort to erase Melanesian ethnicity and to normalise Indonesian rule – Spoiler: Papuans never ceded their sovereignty
More stories about Papua’s indigenous peoples and rare animals
Papua harbours uniquely beautiful animals including rare marsupials and birds not found anywhere else on the planet. In the lush and fertile forests of Papua live thinking, feeling and intelligent beings that love their children. Just like us, they just want to survive and have their animal families and communities left in peace. These animals live in Papua New Guinea and have a IUCN Red List status of Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable. Although animal conservation is still relatively new in Papua New Guinea, there is hope, with conservation foundations working to protect these species and the rainforest they live in.
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