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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 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.

=== 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 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 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.

=== 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]]

=== 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...