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| === Destruction: === | === Destruction: === |
| **Willie Smits** has set up this foundation that protects Orangutans and fights deforestation.\\ | **Willie Smits** has set up this foundation that protects Orangutans and fights deforestation.\\ |
| This happens primarily for tropical wood for **palm-seed oil**. The latter is used as a biofuel and as food. Any product with unspecified 'vegetable-oil' in it will with 90% probability have palm-seed oil in it and therefore contributes to the genocide of Orangutans.\\ | This happens primarily for tropical wood for **palm-seed oil**. The latter is used as a biofuel and as food. Any product with unspecified 'vegetable-oil' in it will with 90% probability have palm-seed oil in it and therefore contributes to the complete anihilation of Orangutans.\\ |
| Yes genocide is a correct term here, I don't use it frivolously, because these creatures are much closer to humans emotionally and intellectually than you probably think. Read the book [[http://www.ullmann-publishing.com/thinkers|Thinkers of the Forest]], it's scary. The classic border between animal- and human kingdoms becomes unnervingly indistinct. After reading this the slaughter of these creatures becomes even more disturbing. Amazingly the animals are even used for prostitution. | |
| | * Smits now has a (dutch) site: http://www.williesmits.nl/ |
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| === Rescue: === | === Rescue: === |
| A typical BOS rescue attempt: [[http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=bAlqx31c2h8&feature=related|BOS rescue team]] | A typical BOS rescue attempt: [[http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=bAlqx31c2h8&feature=related|BOS rescue team]] |
| 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. | 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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| === Willie Smits should be on TED: === | |
| Originally Smits studied silviculture, pedology and forestry at Wageningen University in Holland. On a trip to Indonesia some 20 years ago he was confronted with a dying Orangutan at a market. He was able to keep it alive and release it back into the wild. Many others would follow. I've recommended him to TED talks. | |
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| === Videos: === | |
| A selection of youtube videos: | |
| * [[http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=WKtcWwIEJ60|Last of the Urangutans]] | |
| * [[http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=y207L3EF-Tw|Taking on the Wildlife Traders]] | |
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| === New model for the forest: == | === 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 he 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 compete with cane-sugar. From January 2007 a Sugar palm factory is working that uses geothermal energy for heating and rain water for cooling. see: [[http://www.masarang.org/z_new%20layout_home/home_english.html|Masarang]] | 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 and rain water for cooling. The company is now called **Tapergy**, see: [[http://www.tapergy.com/|tapergy]] |
