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=== Destruction: | === Destruction: | ||
**Willie Smits** has set up this foundation that protects Orangutans and fights deforestation.\\ | **Willie Smits** has set up this foundation that protects Orangutans 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 ' | + | This happens primarily for tropical wood for **palm-seed oil**. The latter is used as a biofuel and as food. Any product with unspecified ' |
- | Yes genocide is a correct term here, I don't use it frivolously, | + | |
+ | * Smits now has a (dutch) site: http://www.williesmits.nl/ | ||
=== Rescue: === | === Rescue: === | ||
A typical BOS rescue attempt: [[http:// | A typical BOS rescue attempt: [[http:// | ||
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. | 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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- | === Willie Smits should be on TED: === | ||
- | Originally Smits studied silviculture, | ||
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- | === Videos: === | ||
- | A selection of youtube videos: | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
=== New model for the forest: == | === New model for the forest: == | ||
- | Form his background in Forestry Smits has developed a economically, | + | Form his background in Forestry Smits has developed a economically, |
- | Why does it work?\\ | ||
- | * All farmers get a steady income and in return sign a contract that ensures that they don't damage the forest. | ||
- | * All land that is cleared for Sugar-palm actually gets used, while the land cleared for Palmseed oil is only used for 7,5%. The rest is just cleared for wood and never farmed. | ||
- | * The factory produces no waste, even the rainwater is recycled. |