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• Malaysia tracks orangutans with implants

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 144
  KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian wildlife authorities are using electronic implants to keep track of orangutans in a bid to protect the endangered apes after they are freed into the wild, an official said Tuesday. Laurentius Ambu, wildlife department head in Sabah state on Borneo island, said three orangutans had ...
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• Meet Peat. Third Largest Producer of Greenhouse Gases

  
  Twilight Earth — Authority: 492
  Peat Moss. It’s drying out in Indonesia, making that country the third largest producer of Greenhouse Gasses behind the U.S. and China. In the heart of Borneo, CO2 rises from the ground like steam. A vast and often smoldering layer of coal-black peat, formed over thousands of years from decomposed trees, grass ...
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• Indonesia replaces Malaysia as world`s biggest palm oil producer

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 456
  Antara 24 Nov 09;Bogor, W Java (ANTARA News) - Indonesia has developed into the world`s biggest crude palm oil (CPO) producer, replacing Malaysia, Amin Tamin Subandrio, deputy to the research and technology minister said here on Tuesday.He said Indonesia had since last year replaced Malaysia as the world`s biggest CPO ...
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• REDD may not be enough to save Sumatras endangered lowland rainforests

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A prominent REDD project in Aceh Indonesia probably wont be enough to save Northern Sumatras endangered lowland rainforests from logging and conversion to oil plantations and agriculture, report researchers writing in Environmental Research Letters. The study highlights the contradiction between the Ulu Masen ...
  5 days ago

• Malaysia Will Not Confront Anti-palm Oil Lobbyists

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 456
  Bernama 23 Nov 09;KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 (Bernama) -- Malaysia will take a consultative approach, rather than confrontational, in dealing with anti-palm oil campaign, the Dewan Rakyat was told Monday.Deputy Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin said that the country would rather held ...
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• Shame companies into using sustainable palm oil, says UK minister

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 456
  Martin Hickman, The Independent 23 Nov 09;Multinational companies should be “named and shamed” into sourcing sustainable palm oil to protect the world’s tropical rainforests, says Britain’s Energy Minister, Joan Ruddock.In an interview with the The Independent, Ms Ruddock, who saw the devastation of virgin ...
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• Transmitters implanted in orangutans for tracking after release into the wild

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  For the first time transmitters have been implanted in orangutans to track their daily movements. The Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) has implanted transmitters into three orangutans that have been released back into the wild from Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of ...
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• Vegetable Oil Cooking

  
  Fisher Funding — Authority: 159
  When cooking with vegetable oil there are a number of factors to be aware of in order to be both healthy and safe There are a number of different vegetable oils available, from olive oil to canola oil, and soybean oil to palm oil Continue reading here: Vegetable Oil Cooking
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• Benny Lee on BFM 89.9

  
  N.I.N.E. — Authority: 123
  Benny shares his views on Bursa Malaysia FBMKLCI and CPO Futures, US dollars and Airasia.
  6 days ago

• Weekend wibble: Newborn orang-utan at Perth Zoo!

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 139
  There’s a new baby orangutan at the Perth zoo! *dies of teh cute* There’s video of the new arrival here at the West , including a keeper who is obviously completely smitten with the orangs. Transcription of the video by the marvellous Quixotess : Clarissa Phillips [in voiceover, over adorable footage of ...
  1 week ago

• Greenwash, blackwash: two faces of conservation evil

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 410
  Beware false prophets, and especially those masquerading as conservationists (or at least ‘green’) when they are not, in fact, doing anything for conservation at all . But this blog site isn’t about typical greenie evil-corporation-making-a-mess-of-the-Earth sermons (there are plenty of those); it’s instead ...
  1 week ago

• Oil palm workers still below poverty line, despite Ministers statements

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  On October 19th, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok told parliament that oil palm harvesters and rubber tappers are living above Malaysias national poverty line, according to a story in the Malaysian Insider . But now representatives of the workers are saying Dompok lied.
  1 week ago

• Conservationists do ‘deal with the devil’ to save orang-utans

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 144
  Agreement sought with palm-oil industry to create ape-saving forest corridors By Lewis Smith Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/ Wildlife campaigners have made “a deal with the devil” in a bid to save the orang-utan from being driven into extinction. They have teamed up with the palm-oil industry, widely ...
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• Orangutans still for sale in jakarta animal markets

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 144
  Source: The Jakarta Globe By Jonathan Walsh Interview with Pak Sanusi, Songbird Salesman Pak Sanusi has had his own stall in the Jalan Pramuka bird market since 1992. His father started the business and not only passed on a passion for songbirds, he passed on the family business as well. But what lurks behind the ...
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• Indonesian Palm Oil exports hampered by Negative Campaign

  
  Quantum Indonesia Translogistic — Authority: 112
  Negative campaign of Indonesia crude palm oil (CPO) still too often in Europe which affecting the CPO exports, after the global crisis. "CPO exports should recover as the impact of the global crisis began to overcome their respective consumer countries, but because of the negative campaign of palm trees, the ...
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• Conservationists do deal with the devil to save orang-utans

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 456
  Agreement sought with palm-oil industry to create ape-saving forest corridorsLewis Smith, The Independent 16 Nov 09;Wildlife campaigners have made "a deal with the devil" in a bid to save the orang-utan from being driven into extinction. They have teamed up with the palm-oil industry, widely condemned by ...
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• Sustainable Palm Oil Farmers Earn $2.1M Through GreenPalm

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 169
  The GreenPalm certificate trading scheme, which supports sustainable methods in palm oil production, has hit a major target.
  1 week ago

• Sumatra hunger strike: the last recourse for a forest community

  
  The Understory : Understory.RAN.org — Authority: 499
  Here in Riau, Indonesia, signs of the struggle to save the last of Sumatra’s forest is everywhere. Daily, the papers cover stories of timber and oil palm companies destroying forests, engaging in corruption, driving land conflicts, sponsoring violence, and marginalizing indigenous peoples. Today, on the way to a ...
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• Candles and children

  
  DIYFather.com - It's great to be a dad! — Authority: 127
  Lighting a candle at home to celebrate a birthday, get in the mood for Christmas or even to save a bit on your next power bill is a nice thing to do. Children are often drawn to the magic of the flame and enjoy the sense that something special is happening. Apart from the usual hazards of an open flame near children ...
  2 weeks ago

• RSPO Dispatch: Duta Palma destroys rainforests and lives

  
  The Understory : Understory.RAN.org — Authority: 499
  On the first day of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Pak Jamaluddin was quiet. He said the air conditioning of Kuala Lumpor gave him the flu. He seemed lost among the groups of palm producers, with their Blackberries and dark suits. Exhausted from the canoe rides, bad roads, the concrete maze of Jakarta, ...
  2 weeks ago

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