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Present and Persistent Palm Oil Problems

27 Jun 2018
The IUCN Oil Palm Task Force has just published a review of the current conundrums of industrial oil palm crops in the tropics. Land-clearing for plantations geard toward international palm oil production remain…
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Global Demand for Natural Resources Eliminated More Than 100,000 Bornean Orangutans — Serge Wich’s research and projects

15 Feb 2018
We just published a new paper that indicates a massive decline of orangutans on Borneo. The paper was published in Current Biology. via Global Demand for Natural Resources Eliminated More Than…
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Crowdfunding Career and Caring

5 Sep 20173 Nov 2017
Dear readers - can you Help Me Get to Texas for Sustainability Education Conference and Hurricane Relief Volunteering https://youtu.be/eUE3A9wZ7dw Please help me go to Texas to give a talk at…
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Experiencing Shocks: Hurricane Edition

1 Sep 20173 Nov 2017
To report the storm as if it were an entirely natural phenomenon, like last week’s eclipse of the sun, is to take a [political] position. As George Monbiot mentions, mainstream…
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Palm Oil reporting and interactive map

30 Jun 2017
The  Zoological Society of London (ZSL) developed SPOTT to report on some of the main drivers of tropical deforestation and habitat loss. They've released transparency scores and assessments of the major palm…
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Earth Day & March for Science

22 Apr 2017
I'm heading to the lovely Santa Cruz March for Science and Earth Day celebration, and wanted to share a song to celebrate that: (You can also see the lyrics to…
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How do living systems ‘prepare, leverage and bounce back’ from times of crisis?

24 Dec 2016
Rachel Hahs posted some amazing biomimetic analogies and questions for understanding how we respond to our current time of crisis and transformation through a contemplation of how nature expresses resilience…
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The Smoke of Centuries: Indonesia’s Fires

9 Nov 2015
The fires in Indonesia  burn rainforest trees that have grown and fed and housed orangutans for decades or centuries, and peat that has stored carbon for centuries or millennia.  George Monbiot…
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Leuser Under Threat Again

14 Sep 2015
And yet another sad but important recent article related to my upcoming talk, this time on the Leuser Ecosystem (where I studied orangutans at Suaq Balimbing and Ketambe research sites in…
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Latest article on the Palm Oil threat to the Leuser Ecosystem

23 Jul 2015
A recent summary of the current challenges facing Leuser, where I went 16 years ago to study orangutans, then watched their home being desecrated by the relentless chainsaws. "Right now, huge swaths…

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