The UK city taking a stand on palm oil in the fight against deforestation

A growing number of towns and villages are following Chester's lead in helping local businesses to eradicate deforestation-linked oil from their supply chains

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From mince pies and biscuits to lipstick and soap, palm oil grown on deforested land in south-east Asia will have been hard to avoid this Christmas. The vegetable oil is found in almost half of all packaged products in UK supermarkets, according to WWF.

But a growing number of towns and cities are trying to use only sustainable palm oil, helping orangutans, tigers, Sumatran rhinos and many other threatened species.