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 === BOS: Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation === === BOS: Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation ===
  
-**Willie Smits** has set up this foundation that protects Orang utans and fights deforestation.\\ +=== 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 'vegetable-oil' in it will with 90% probability have palm-seed oil in it and therefore contributes to the genocide of Orang utans.\\ +**Willie Smits** has set up this foundation that protects Orangutans and fights deforestation.\\ 
-Yes genocide is correct term here, I don't use it frivolously, because these creatures are much closer to humans emotionally and intellectually than you probably thinkRead 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.+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.\\ 
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 +  * Smits now has (dutch) site: http://www.williesmits.nl/ 
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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. 
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 +=== New model for the forest: == 
 +Form his background in Forestry Smits has developed a economicallysocially 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 coolingThe company is now called **Tapergy**, see: [[http://www.tapergy.com/|tapergy]]
  
-A typical BOS resque attempt: [[http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=bAlqx31c2h8&feature=related|BOS resque team]] 
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