Sustainability at Mars Chocolate The Company Mars Chocolate is one of the world’s leading chocolate manufacturers and employs more than 13‚000 people across 110 sites worldwide. Mars is a private‚ family owned company and is governed by a Board of Directors. The Directors are members of the Mars family. The Mars Board of Directors receives independent advice from four external Board Advisors. The parent company‚ Mars‚ Incorporated is run by a global management team that oversees the day to day
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rain and very large areas of Siberia have been harvested since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the last two decades‚ Afghanistan has lost over 70 per cent of its forests throughout the country. However‚ it is in the world’s great tropical rainforests where the destruction is most pronounced at the current time and where wholesale felling is having an adverse effect on biodiversity and contributing to the ongoing Holocene mass extinction. About half of the mature tropical forests‚ between 750
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ENDANGERED DUE TO OIL PALM TREE PLANTATIONS Would you like your home taken away from you? Many animal species including the Orangutan are becoming extremely endangered because of land clearage for new palm oil plantations in the tropical rainforests of Sumatra‚ an island near Indonesia and Malaysia in south-east Asia. Sadly‚ 80% of the Orangutan’s habitat has been lost in the past 20 years due to this. The rapid loss of environment has caused the existence of these primates severely threatened
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gas burn‚ and rainforests be destroyed. Rainforests are something often associated with conservation. Save the Rainforest! Earth First!‚ a well-known environmental defense [aka: ecosaboteur] group‚ has a history with this particular area. On one particular peaceful attack against Brazil’s deforestation‚ this was written: "There was evidence‚ denied by Earth First!‚ of traditional monkey-wrenching tactics..." (Google Books). And so many things fall down the tubes when the rainforests go. For one‚
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Amazon River and rainforest are located in Brazil‚ a country with more than 800‚000 square miles of coastline‚ and a landmass so large that its borders touch all but two of its neighboring countries (Rich‚ 1999). The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest‚ and for purposes of comparison‚ "its size is equivalent to one-half of the entire United States" (Rich‚ 1999). Although the need to protect this unique and valuable environment might seems obvious‚ the rainforest and its river
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oxygen levels dramatically‚ which would increase the global warming. Deforestation is mostly experienced between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn especially in the Brazilian part of the Amazon‚ which covers 33% of the world’s rainforests. "Save the greenery Enjoy the scenery Don’t cut our green friends Or it will be the end of all trends" PROBLEMS OF DEFORESTION First of all‚ many medicines come from plants. Most of the Amazon’s plants have yet to be discovered and catalogued
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21st Century Problems: Deforestation Senator Bill Brady stated‚ “Every time I have some moment on seashore‚ or in the mountains‚ or sometimes in a quiet forest‚ I think this is why the environment has to be preserved‚” but unfortunately in our vast society‚ the environment is having a hard time finding a place in our competitive resource era. Acres of forest are being mowed down by companies to feed their ever growing corporate empires and without being conscious about the problem that leads
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tropical region‚ which includes temperature‚ precipitation and wind direction‚ are due to a number of factors. The tropical continental climate in Africa‚ north of the equator‚ can be described as transitional‚ as it is between the rainforest margins of the central African rainforest and also the desert margins of the Saharan desert. This results in a continual‚ gradual change to the climate‚ so that as the latitude increases‚ there are recognisable changes to the climate. All areas have a wet season (June
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organisms are associated in a relationship in which one benefits from the relationship and the other is not affected much. The two animals are called commensals. This is one type of symbiosis. An example is bromeliads (plants living on trees in rainforests) and frogs; the frogs get shelter and water from the bromeliad‚ but the bromeliad is unaffected. Predator/ Prey- Predators also use camouflage so they can sneak up on their preThe Bengal tiger is a carnivore. It eats boars‚ wild oxen‚ monkeys‚
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Philippine islands of Southeast Asia. These areas are covered in tropical rainforests and also allow the tarsier’s home‚ the balete tree to thrive. A large portion of these rainforests have been destroyed due to increased need for farming making the tarsier even more elusive. However‚ the tropical rainforest that remains
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