June 9, 2010
Ms. Kathy Cloninger, CEO
Girl Scouts of the United States
420 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10018-2798
Dear Ms. Cloninger:
June 9, 2010
Ms. Kathy Cloninger, CEO
Girl Scouts of the United States
420 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10018-2798
Dear Ms. Cloninger:
The palm oil industry is aggressively expanding palm oil production for both cooking oil and biofuel. That means destroying millions of acres of forests and small farms and converting them into vast plantations of oil palm. In many countries, and especially in Indonesia and Malaysia, oil palm plantations are forcing forest-dwelling peoples to abandon the forests just ahead of the advancing bulldozers.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.