The palm oil produced in unsustainable way, also called dirty palm, has a disastrous impact on the environment. Indeed, to answer the increasing global demand, palm oil companies are logging forested areas to clear land for more palm oil plantations. The Borneo and Sumatra islands, that possess precious ecosystems, are unfortunately the most impacted. In Indonesia only, this is a forested area as big as football pitch that is lost every 25 seconds.
On top of that, the deforestation of the indonesian rainforest by palm oil companies leads to serious threats, here are the main ones: