| PANORAMA - DYING FOR A BISCUIT - TONIGHT, 22 FEBRUARY 8.30PM ON BBC ONE
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DYING FOR A BISCUIT
In tonight's programme Raphael Rowe looks behind the labels of some of the UK's most popular brands and finds a key ingredient that is fuelling the destruction of the rainforest and threatening the orang-utan with extinction.
In the UK we consume thousands of tonnes of palm oil - an ingredient found in scores of products including biscuits, fish fingers, cosmetics and toiletries.
Panorama journeys into the rainforest of Borneo to uncover evidence of palm oil companies cutting down trees illegally and developing plantations on protected land.
This deforestation releases huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the global environment. As the forest disappears, at a rate of two football pitches every minute, so too does the habitat of man's closest cousin, the critically endangered orang-utan.
Panorama: Dying for a Biscuit is tonight on BBC One at 8.30pm.
You can find out more about the programme on the Panorama website.
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