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| === BOS: Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation === | === BOS: Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation === | ||
| - | **Willie Smits** has set up this foundation that protects | + | === Destruction: |
| - | This happens primarily for tropical wood for **palm-seed oil**. The latter is used as a biofuel and as food. Any product with unspecified ' | + | **Willie Smits** has set up this foundation that protects |
| - | Yes genocide is a correct term here, I don't use it frivolously, | + | This happens primarily for tropical wood for **palm-seed oil**. The latter is used as a biofuel and as food. Any product with unspecified ' |
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| + | * Smits now has a (dutch) site: http://www.williesmits.nl/ | ||
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| + | === Rescue: === | ||
| + | A typical BOS rescue attempt: | ||
| + | BOS team members are subject to violence and threats to such an extent that Smits has prepared his grave in his back-yard and has prepared his young children for the worst. | ||
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| + | === New model for the forest: == | ||
| + | Form his background in Forestry Smits has developed a economically, socially and biologically profitable alternative to current practice. This alternative is based on the re-introduction of the **Sugar-palm as a food-crop**. The [[Masarang foundation]] set up by Smits aims to lift the traditional food-crop used in local tradition as a source of sugar, to out-compete cane-sugar by an impressive margin. From January 2007 a Sugar palm factory is working that uses geothermal energy for heating | ||
| - | A typical BOS resque attempt: [[http:// | ||