"Our Palm Oil Story"

Grade 2 students at Ecole Margaret Jenkins in Victoria, BC share their thoughts and artwork after viewing Dr. Birute Galdikas' film "Born To Be Wild". The class saw the movie as part of a project on social responsibility, and came up with original cartoons to express how they felt about the palm oil industry, which continues to endanger the orangutan habitat in Indonesia.

Acknowledgements from Div. 10 teacher, Mme Hunt:
"We thank our parents who love us and take care of us. We thank Dr Galdikas for her work with the orangutans and for her inspiration. We thank Duncan O'Brien and Marita Buscombe, who produced this video. We thank Ken Harper and Mark Albany who helped us think differently about our world. We thank Mr Parker and all our teachers for supporting our projects and our creativity. We thank the planet for providing us with what we need to live here. In joy and with all our gratitude, Mme Hunt and Div.10"

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Palm
• oil
• orangutans
• Ecole
• Margaret
• Jenkins
• school
• victoria
• bc
• Dr.
• Birute
• galdikas

[misseverythingever]

TIM taMS YAY AuSSIe!

[DaveNoisy]

Fantastic job, thanks for doing this; i've been avoiding palm oil for a few years now too since i learned about this, it's so important to protect habitat for orangutans and other animals - nicely done!

- 'Coach' Dave (from the Bike Club)

[dtkuropatwa]

Merci bien de partager ça avec nous Mme Hunt et les élèves de 2e année! Pouvez vous partager les autres questions qui sortir de vos recherches? Avez vous trouver des réponses?

[clintlalonde]

Excellent work you guys. You should feel great about doing your part to raise awareness about this issue (and kudos to your teacher and school for putting this out here for the world to see and helping to spread this message).

[skeena69]

Very interesting article. Thank you.

[juliaschriver]

Wey to go guys, good job. I want to share this with folks I know living in SE Asia!!! Well done. Julia

[VictoriaForCanucks]

Wow! Well done students and Mme Hunt! I love your colourful illustrations and how all of you took part in making this video. Great message and very well presented. Congratulations!

From an Educational Assistant at your school.

[seankrausert]

Great job kids! You certainly taught me about this serious problem. Thanks . . . the world needs people like you who care and speak up.

[mjmcclelland]

How Inspiring. I hope this goes around the world and creates such an impact that changes this foreboding outcome. Be proud of yourselves for your message. And thank you to all the parents/teachers that made this happen. WOW!