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Seafood Watch Program

With demand for seafood growing, the ocean's supply of fish is shrinking. Fortunately, there's something you can do to help stop this disappearing act.

Your consumer choices make a difference. Click here to learn more about the Seafood Watch Program, including which seafood choices support efforts for healthier ocean wildlife and the environment. Look for the Seafood Watch Guides to help you select seafood that's plentiful and comes from environmentally responsible sources. Stop by the Aquarium building to pick up your copy of the Central US Seafood Guide. Your wise choices will help protect the oceans—and keep fish in the picture.

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Orangutuan

Sustainable Palm Oil
Many candies, cookies, crackers and even shampoos and beauty products contain palm oil harvested from rainforests in Borneo and Sumatra, home to the world's only wild orangutan populations.

In recent years the increased demand for palm oil has led to an increase in palm tree plantations. These plantations are created by clear cutting rainforests and burning the remains, sending large amounts of the greenhouse gas CO2 into the atmosphere. As the rainforest is cleared, the orangutans' habitat is being rapidly destroyed— orangutans could be extinct in the wild within 10 years. You can help by making sure you buy products that are made either without palm oil or with palm oil from places besides rainforests. Click here to learn which of your favorites are both sweet and sustainable.

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What is the Zoo doing about it?
The Toledo Zoo is working to ensure that Pumpkin Path and Little Boo candy is not made with palm oil that's harvested unsustainably. We try to choose candies and snacks that either do not contain palm oil or that use palm oil that is sustainably harvested. If you do not see some of your favorite candies this year, it is because after a great deal of research, we believe that they are not produced with sustainable palm oil. For more information about sustainable palm oil, click here.

Learn Green Practices
There are several practices you can incorporate into your daily life that can make a difference. The Toledo Zoo Green Team has assembled a great collection of Green Tips and other information that can help you help the planet! Click here to view the Green Team's information.