Improving palm oil awareness in China

Awareness-raising by civil society is beginning to bear fruit, with plenty of potential in instant noodles and personal care By: Niu Yuhan, China Dialogue “Remember, recently you got in the habit of checking the list of contents whenever you buy something? Thanks to that little act of yours, nature is already changing…” At the COP15 biodiversity talks in Montreal last December, WildBound, a Chinese educational non-profit, launched a game about orangutans and palm oil called Forest Life. Players, in the roles of ordinary consumer, palm oil company executive and small-scale farmer, generate varying impacts on orangutan habitats and biodiversity according to how they