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--- borneo_orangutan_survival_foundation [2008-08-05 15:08] – theunkarelse
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 === 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 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.
+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.\\
-=== Rescue ===
+  * Smits now has a (dutch) site: http://www.williesmits.nl/
+=== 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 ===
+=== New model for the forest: ==
-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.
+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]]
-=== 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...