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| === Destruction === | === Destruction === |
| **Willie Smits** has set up this foundation that protects Orang utans and fights deforestation.\\ | **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.\\ | 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.\\ |
| 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. | 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. |
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| === Willie Smits === | === Willie Smits === |
| 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. | 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 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. More about this follows soon... | Form his background in Forestry Smits has developed a economically, socially and biologically profitable alternative to current practice. More about this follows soon... |
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