The fate of the orang utan when oil palms take over the land:


http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/10/27/lifefocus/4847900&sec=lifefocus

Rainforestsos.org

Sign up to Prince Charles’ bold initiative for the rainforests.





Upriver projects strongly supports and praises The Prince’s Rainforest Project. While the politicians and transnational Big Bucks play chess among themselves in their air-conditioned conference centres, somebody has to do something - and now!  Further delay will litterally cost us the earth. The forests will have their revenge when they become deserts.  TM

Watch out for the “Aceh Green” Flag in Copenhagen during the UN Conference on Climate Change.

http://portal.campaigncc.org/content/aceh-green

Check out these sites on Leuser.

http://leuserecosystem.org/  (Bahasa Indonesia and English)              http://www.forcefortheforest.com/

    

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Some good info on Ecosystems and Economics

http://www.teebweb.org

A BBC Panorama programme on Palm oil and oil palm plantations in Indonesia: Spot on!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r4t3s/Panorama_Dying_For_a_Biscuit/

Nice one!  A shortie made by students at Liverpool’s John Moore University for the Environment Agency.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-h6pNv7FJ4

See the new Upriver film “Glimpses of Aceh”: (In three parts) See links below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fwvM0mPVLI&feature=related       Part 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0-ZKfHcti0&feature=related           Part 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lRoGKhuuz4&feature=related        Part 3.


This short three part travelogue was mostly shot in and near our village in West Aceh and at the graveside of Abu Ibrahim Woyla Rahmatullah a few days after his death He died at the age of 109 in Kuala Bhee. Abu was effectively our village headman and the film is dedicated to him.

More about Palm oil and how Europe’s appetite for biofuels (palm oil) is causing the continued destruction of tropical forests in Indonesia:

http://www.foei.org/en/what-we-do/agrofuels/global/2010/europe2019s-demand-for-palm-oil-driving-deforestation-and-land-grabbing

More on Indonesia’s deforestation and Norway’s one billion euros.

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/640908/lack_of_forest_definition_major_obstacle_in_fight_to_protect_rainforests.html

The Way to Woyla Film in four parts shot in 2005 just after the tsunami. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_LRFnraYQ&playnext=1&list=PL4A4AA4FA1AC39F3C&index=12 Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQBnJ_8cfXo&feature=related Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj0cblUzsms&feature=related Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzENS5NXqyI&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_LRFnraYQ&playnext=1&list=PL4A4AA4FA1AC39F3C&index=12http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_LRFnraYQ&playnext=1&list=PL4A4AA4FA1AC39F3C&index=12http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQBnJ_8cfXo&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQBnJ_8cfXo&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj0cblUzsms&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj0cblUzsms&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzENS5NXqyI&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzENS5NXqyI&feature=relatedshapeimage_6_link_0shapeimage_6_link_1shapeimage_6_link_2shapeimage_6_link_3shapeimage_6_link_4shapeimage_6_link_5shapeimage_6_link_6shapeimage_6_link_7
All about the ecological impact of palm oil plantations on tropical forests in S.E.Asia: Eco-destruction just to feed our motor cars.      

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/752213/worlds_largest_ecological_experiment_to_examine_impact_of_palm_oil_plantations.html