Sumatra

How to Boil a Frog's FrogBlog tackles the question of whether environmentalists and the wealthy have both given up on civilization.

Coffee is still being illegally grown in sensitive national parks in Indonesia, and big corporations like Nestle are still buying it to produce cheap instant coffee a year after being exposed by the World Wildlife Fund. And consumers keep buying the coffee, as Nestle posted big profits in its beverage division.

It is estimated that orangutans could be extinct in the wild within 12 years - and your choice of bread, chips, lipstick or soap is the cause. The rainforests in Borneo and Sumatra and elsewhere are being cleared to make way for plantations growing palm oil, a cheap ubiquitous ingredient in many foods and cosmetics, and a major bio-diesel crop.