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 === BOS: Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation ===
+=== Destruction ===
 **Willie Smits** has set up this foundation that protects Orang utans 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 Orang utans.\\
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 === Rescue ===
 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.
 === Willie Smits ===
-Originally Smits studied silviculture, pedology and forestry at Wageningen University in Holland. On a trip to Indonesia some 30 years ago he was confronted by a dying Orang utan at a market. He was able to keep it alive and release it back into the wild. Many others would follow.
+Originally Smits studied silviculture, pedology and forestry at Wageningen University in Holland. On a trip to Indonesia some 20 years ago he was confronted by a dying Orang utan 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.
 === New model for the forest ==
 Form his background in Forestry Smits has developed a economically, socially and biologically profitable alternative to current practice. More about this follows soon...