Greenpeace wages campaign against palm oil giant Wilmar

[JAKARTA] Oreo cookies and Gillette shaving cream are among products driving the destruction of Indonesia's forests, Greenpeace said yesterday, accusing agri-giant Wilmar International of supplying "dirty palm oil" to make the grocery items.

In its report "Licence to Kill", Greenpeace said that Singapore-based Wilmar, the world's biggest palm oil processor, was sourcing its oil from illegally cleared land and destroying the habitat of critically endangered Sumatran tigers.

"Until Wilmar commits to a no-deforestation policy, their trade of palm oil to big household brands... makes consumers unwitting accomplices in the extinction of Indonesia's 400 remaining Sumatran tigers," said head of Greenpeace's Forest Campaign in Indonesia, Bustar Maitar.