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Cadbury Chocolates Back on the Zoo Menu!
Cadbury chocolates will be back in Auckland Zoo. This news comes after Cadbury New Zealand decided to remove palm oil as an ingredient in their products.
Image source: Cadbury
Palm oil was recently introduced into Cadbury’s chocolate mix in line with their cost cutting measures. What they did not foresee was an uprising in the consumer public, with Auckland Zoo leading the way by banning Cadbury chocolates to be sold inside the zoo.
Auckland Zoo voiced concern that palm oil production damages rain forests, particularly in South East Asia which are the natural habitats of the orangutans and many other wildlife species. It is predicted that orangutans will be extinct in the wild in less than 10 years if the current growth of palm oil plantations continues.
The zoos orangutan group is in the Just Juice Primate Trail and form part of a co-ordinated breeding programme. Come and visit them and I bet you will have fun and learn to appreciate Auckland Zoo’s stand against palm oil production.
