Palm Oil Quiz

How many acres of rainforest is destroyed each day?

• 20 acres

• 200,000 acres (an area that is 30 times bigger than Liverpool)

• 200 acres

• A football pitch size

Ture or Fasle? There are about 20 million hectares (an area larger than the UK) of abandoned land available to grow palm oil trees. However, firms prefer clearing forests first to get double profit. One is by selling timber trees and another is for the oil.

• True

• False

How many people in South East Asia die prematurely each year because of toxic air pollution caused by fires used to clear land for palm oil manufacturing?

• 12

• 176

• 110,000

• 23,000

What percentage orangutan habitat has been destroyed in the past 20 years?

• 3%

• 24%

• 80%

• 50%

How many animals are endangered in Indonesia now due to deforestation?

• 1 in 10

• 1 in 100

• 1 in 3

• 1 in 50

How many Orangutans die each year due to deforestation?

• 6000

• 100

• 12

• 198

At the beginning of the 20th century, about 250,000 tonnes of palm oil was exported annually from South-East Asia. Now, these figures have risen to...

• 500,000 tonnes

• 1 million tonnes

• 3 million tonnes

• nearly 70 million tonnes

At the same rate of deforestation, new studies suggest that Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests will be destroyed by the year...

• 2119

• 2098

• 2022

• 2200

What percentage of Orangutans have died out in the past 20 years?

• 12%

• 14%

• 56%

• Almost 80%

In 1948 experts believed the Sumatran Tiger population was around 10,000 now they believe it to be...

• 7,000

• 8,000

• 3,000

• less than 300