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The country has promised to offer the animals as gifts to key business partners who buy its palm oil.
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Malaysia has announced plans to create an "orangutan diplomacy" scheme, similar to China's "panda diplomacy", which has seen the animals gifted to various countries around the world that are trading partners.
Kuala Lumpur is considering giving orangutans as gifts to key trading partners that buy its palm oil, the BBC reports.
The primates are native to Malaysia and Indonesia, and their survival is threatened by the expansion of agriculture, particularly palm oil plantations, which have been blamed as a major cause of habitat loss.
Malaysia's Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister, Johari Abdul Ghani, said major importers of the country's palm oil, such as China, India and the European Union, would be offered the orangutans as gifts. "This will show the global community that Malaysia is committed to biodiversity conservation," he said on Twitter.
"We need to show the world that Malaysia is a sustainable producer of palm oil and is committed to protecting our forests and the environment," he added.
MALAYSIA BERHASRAT PERKENAL "DIPLOMASI ORANG UTAN" KEPADA NEGARA DAGANG SAWIT
— Johari Abdul Ghani (@joharighani) May 7, 2024
Merasmikan Forum Biodiversiti Yayasan Pemuliharaan Hijau Minyak Sawit Malaysia (MPOGCF) di Resorts World Awana. pic.twitter.com/hNXTTcZEq5
Conservation groups, such as the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), have raised concerns about the proposal, however. "WWF supports the in-situ conservation of wildlife and urges that trading partners be brought to Malaysia to support this, rather than sending orangutans out of the country," the organization said in a statement, according to Reuters.
Palm oil, which is used in a wide range of products from chocolate and margarine to cosmetics, thrives in tropical regions, the BBC reports. Its expansion has led to the destruction of areas of natural rainforest, with plantations often described as "green deserts" because they lack the biodiversity of the forests they replace.
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