Habitats.

Cont'd. from Projects I.

HABITATS

RAINFORESTS:

*** THE TROPICAL RAINFOREST FILE - A BLUEPRINT FOR SAVING THE PLANET FROM COMPLETE ANNIHILATION. If this doesn't succeed we'll be saying goodbye to over two thirds of the species on the planet and we therefore absolutely cannot afford failure. https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_128e60d437424db99bbcf90be1b941b0.pdf

If we want to stop deforestation in its tracks we need to embrace commerce ourselves rather than continuing on the current path of standing on the sidelines with all of the appeasement, destruction and humiliation this ultimately brings. It would also be far more helpful if conservationists were to take on board this message instead of giving it the blank stare as they do.

*** Pavan Sukhdev - Ending The Economic Invisibility Of Nature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU9G2E_RYJo&feature=youtu.be

“The Economic Invisibility Of Nature.” It's one thing of course to recognise nature has an invisible economic value but it's another entirely to tap into that value and create wealth that would more than pay for conservation two or three times over and to do that is really quite simple.

Oil Palm, native to Western Central Africa, could so easily be grown on marginal land there, connecting forest reserves and fighting back the deserts, rather than contributing to the most appalling habitat destruction the planet has ever witnessed throughout S.E. Asia and elsewhere. Cocoa, the wild tree, native to Central South America, could also be grown as a commercial crop in its home region to increase the forest acreage there instead of destroying it in Africa. This along with Vanilla was being tapped into by the Ancient Mayans long ago and it was more than good enough for them. Rubber native to Amazonia, and until the British stole the seeds and began growing it in Malaya seriously cutting in on the original market, it was a major income for that entire region.

All of these trees and plants are perfectly good and rightfully belonging somewhere in the world and if grown in those places as species, rather than where they usually are at present often as cultivars, they could both create habitat and wealth at the same time. See the two links below, both make good reading, the first explains in detail how this could all be achieved, and the second opens up a good many old wounds from the past. But anything that ultimately gives the planet some kind of natural forestry and conservation its dignity back surely has to be a good thing and worthy of consideration.

*** Plant Forests And Make A Fortune – A rewrite of the original concise version.

If forests are to be saved on the mass they truly deserve they need the chance to earn their way out of destruction. Get the locals on side, avoid alienating the electorate as has been done all around the world and just let's get on with saving the planet.

https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_849b9b810c2f4ef58093b651371de717.pdf

But for political reasons governments have been wilfully engaged in the opposite of what's good for the planet for centuries and things are far from improving. We need a completely new 'Rainforest Assured Standard,' a symbol that would actually mean something, in which the public could truly engage with in sustainable shopping. A system where wild indigenous, native species trees and plants would be cultivated in their homelands creating habitat on mass and thus providing the truly sustainable credentials which would no doubt had been fully expected in the first place.

There are no reasons at all why rainforests couldn't generate enough wealth to support themselves on mass two or three times over. Rubber alone has a $multibillion annual turnover and if this was cultivated in its original Brazil and Peru both extensive habitat as well as vast fortunes could be created. Obviously it's not going to end up as a pristine species-rich rainforest but it would nonetheless make a viable piece of habitat which could provide a home to Jaguars and many other species. At the moment these animals, alternating between hapless conservationists who want to save them and ranchers who want them killed, are struggling for their very survival. I believe extensive rubber cultivation there could be their salvation which would certainly better than anything they have at the moment with the endless expanses of ranches and soya farms.

What this paper sets out to achieve is that by acquiring land paid staff workers could then conserve and protect the wildlife within its boundaries. Once in ownership it would be a simple matter of cultivating the right commercial tree and plant species from which products could then be sold either locally or onto the world-market. In the dappled shade of Rubber Trees you could also cultivate an understory of wild Cocoa and many other native plants which would double or even triple the profit potential. There are any amount of rainforest crops that produce nuts, fruits, spices, resins and waxes etc. By generating cash from self-sustaining systems around the world this could then bring in great benefits for everyone and everything living both in and around the forests as well as the whole of conservation itself.

*** What The Conservationists Don't Want You To Know. https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_3613f6c81f834e59a2efcac16c21bd0e.pdf

For political reasons however governments have been wilfully engaged in the opposite of what's good for the planet for centuries and things are far from improving. We need a completely new 'Rainforest Assured Standard,' a symbol that would actually mean something, in which the public could truly engage with in sustainable shopping. A system where wild indigenous, native species trees and plants would be cultivated in their home-lands creating habitat on mass and thus providing the truly sustainable credentials which would no doubt had been fully expected in the first place

*** These articles on the other hand show how things are currently run on a free-for-all basis, operating at sustainable levels in only one or two cases, with local villagers often running amok in the only forested bits of a country that are left.

https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_8e55d728d40d419db2e4e287ed8f6325.pdf and https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_441eaf2f745948bb829b831a9282cfe5.pdf

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Having however spoken about all of the positive attributes we've listed here we are up against an absolutely impenetrable stonewall from all of those who doubt this would ever work. Just about every last conservationist we have ever put this to in fact has either given it the blank stare or has simply looked at us as if we were raving mad. So glazed over are they that it hardly makes a vaguest impression on them and yet what in God's name do any of them have to offer? A handful of pitifully small rainforest reserves, which admittedly are better than nothing at all, and copious amounts of regurgitated chat about sustainable palm oil.

So much of a problem is it that conservation can now barely survive within it's own financial vacuum brought about by their almost wilful lack of imagination. But if they were to adopt this idea, their pitifully small forest reserves would remain exactly as they are, but added to them you would have all of this other forest which would interconnect with them all. And with the extra revenue they would create we could easily afford to substantially increase the protected areas in any case. Conservation needs to take matters in their own hands and regain some of that much needed dignity once again.

https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_482212e6b8a54a27984b86bee6ac3a43.pdf

https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_11b83883976a4d02811cc60c1f98cf10.pdf

This as an example would be Greenpeace's non-imaginative response.

In 2005, an article published by Greenpeace International stated that “the tasty dark violet wine of açaí is the most important non-wood forest product in terms of money from the river delta of the Amazon.”[8] A 2008 Los Angeles Times article noted that while açaí has been acclaimed by some sources as a renewable resource that can provide a sustainable livelihood for subsistence harvesters without damaging the Amazon Rainforest, conservationists worry that açaí could succumb to the destructive agribusiness model of clear-cut lands, sprawling plantations, and liberal application of pesticides and fertilizer.[9] Although most açaí is grown conventionally, the US company Sambazon established USDA Organic certification for their açaí palm plantations in 2003 and has also implemented fair trade certification.[10][11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aça%C3%AD_palm

Source Wikipedia.

The point here has been entirely missed and simply reinforces precisely why it is we need conservationists in charge and positively not the multinationals. They speak of 'sprawling plantations' as if this were a bad thing, but if they were made up of these 'naturally occurring but economically useful native species that were creating habitat' then this would hardly be a problem.

Rainforests by definition are endlessly sprawling and if this 'sprawl' were run by the right people earning money for proper conservation rather than the multinationals then what would be wrong with that? So long as this sprawl promotes habitat then what's not to like? We must leave behind this notion that plantations have to be these monocultured rows of man-made cultivars or alien species and heavily chemicalised. This does in fact not need to be the way things are run at all.

There are many interpretations of the word sustainable but ultimately there can be only one true meaning of course. I think in the majority of cases they just need a damn good dictionary to read.

*** Boycott Palm Oil. Avoid the following ingredients because they are or might be palm oil.

Until such time as palm oil really is produced sustainably, grown by real conservationists on marginal land in Central Western Africa where it grows as a native tree, simply avoid it like the plague. Or, if plantations were ever bought up for converting back to some kind of native planting, the interim period until that is achieved could also be considered sustainable because of the ultimate aim. But until such time avoid!

A simple guidance to avoiding because they are or might be palm oil.

Vegetable Fat, Vegetable Oil, Etyl Palmitate, Glyceryl, Hydrated Palm Glycerides, Octyl Palmitate, Palm Truit Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Palm Kernel, Palm Stearine, Palmate, Palmitate, Palmitic Acid, Palmitoyl Oxostearamide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-3, Palmity Alcohol, Palmolein, Sodium Kernelate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Lauryl Lactylate/Sulphate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Stearate and Stearic Acid. Soya based lecithin's not exactly great either.

So many funny names, it's enough to confuse anyone, which of course they're designed to do. Always check the ingredients and go for the sunflower, rapeseed, olive or coconut oils instead. Remember generic Vegetable Oil has become the new whale oil in as much as it's something we all need to very much avoid.

But for the full and comprehensive list compiled by Palm Oil Investigations. Please see the link.

Palm Oil - The hidden ingredient with over 200 names

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_9102fd1a885f49908f73092a3ee57492.pdf

*** RSPO Members’ Concealed Links To Papua Palm Oil Plantations.

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_f5133e040a614b36bea7496f3dc742f6.pdf

Conservationists Sidestepping The Issues - Generically Citing Global-Warming Rather Than The Causes.

*** How Destroying Forests There Can Cause Retreating Glaciers Here.

This retreating glacier at Mendhenhall, South Alaska clearly points to a rise in local temperatures but what shouldn't be overlooked are the air currents which blow up across the North Pacific from around Indonesia towards this location below the Arctic Circle.

The Kuroshio Current is a north-flowing ocean movement of water on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean, as a simplified map of the ocean's currents in this link demonstrate (see the upper left-hand feature). Currents like these then set the pace for the prevailing winds around the world and as forests in one part of the world are destroyed there may well be unforeseen consequences happening elsewhere on the planet. A correlation of warmer and drier than usual air blowing up from the south, resulting from deforestation there, then has a profound effect on the ice melt here.

https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_42efb624cbfa49328db8ac16bee83ca3.pdf

*** Huge Antarctic Iceberg Poised To Break Away.

And again, by looking at this same very simplified map of the ocean's currents (see the lower right hand feature this time), demonstrates the Brazil Current drifting from Central Western Africa right down near to the Larsen Ice Shelf. It's worth noting here too, the abysmal deforestation that's occurred in that region of Africa over the past fifty years or so, producing a similar effect to what is happening with the Alaskan melt.

Driving the prevailing winds, with the warmer and drier than usual air resulting from forest loss in one part of the world, that go on to effect other parts elsewhere on the planet. Most conservationists, the same people incidentally who support sustainable palm oil thus fuelling further deforestation, will put this down to generic global warming whereas the evidence, as I am finding it, is not so straightforward. https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_a345140c13194cd58046c219a126a8d7.pdf

We need to do all we can to save the rainforests world-wide on the mass they truly deserve, a way of accomplishing this as we've already said, would be to make them pay for themselves by giving them a real financial footing. This would be a good deal more productive than routinely going cap in hand to big palm oil.

Some Of The World’s Largest Non-Polar Glaciers Are Expanding Despite Global Warming.

Here too this can be explained by prevailers. Not as pronounced as the oceanic winds but prevailing winds nonetheless blowing down from Siberia. http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/11/some-of-the-worlds-largest-non-polar-glaciers-are-expanding-despite-global-warming/

Anomalies, more subtle and for less obvious reasons than these, are occurring in various other parts of the planet and no-one seems to have a clue how to fix the problems.

The Sixth Great Extinction - Mainly Down To Conservationists Being So Inept.

A biodiversity crisis is looming upon us. We are now in the middle of a “sixth great extinction” of animal species, scientists warn, with loss of species about 1,000 times higher than it would have been without human impact.
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/good-quality-monitoring-surveys-key-to-wildlife-conservation-new-study/

*** The Amazon Burns.

Had conservationists listened to an idea I'd had on mass rubber and cocoa expansion over a decade ago now things may well have been slightly different.

I practically drew them a plan. It entailed going into the forests and collecting native Rubber and wild Cocoa seeds. By planting out the saplings, creating wealth, habitat and work for the locals, there was an opportunity to save the forests many many times over. These crops command a $multibillion annual turnover on the world-market and could easily had been enough to create an industry for saving rather than destroying forests.

All most people want is employment so that they can feed their families but those who are in charge of saving the forests are so dim-witted they cannot see beyond their own noses. They just don't seem to get it that by having the locals on side by offering them real green jobs you're at least half way towards saving something.

Don't think a country's going to give up a fifth of its landmass while the rest of the world offers nothing in return. If it happens with one government there's no guarantee the next one will follow and this is just what's happening here.

This idea would have provided habitat for Jaguars, and not the death-sentence they're probably facing now, as well as too vastly expanding Amazonia itself. But instead this is what we now have. Below are the details of what could've been.

https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_849b9b810c2f4ef58093b651371de717.pdf

Having failed so miserably in almost every election they've ever had over the past decade the Lefties then hold their hands in the air, boohoohoo, as if to say where did it all go so terribly wrong. Well it ain't no mystery is it, they just don't have a clue on how to conduct themselves in a way that's going to appeal to the masses, and unless they can do that they're going to loose out on every election they're involved with time and time again just as they're doing at the moment.

I've been saying this for years now, the loony lefties are positively no good for the planet and they're not even any good for their own extremely short-sighted ideals either. They'll most deservedly lose support each and every time and they'll kill off our wildlife while they're doing it.

*** Jason Hickel - The Divide RT - Renegade Inc. A valuable insight as to what's really happening in the world today.

According to this documentary, and it all makes perfect sense, nothing is in fact failing but everything is very much on track. Things like conflicts, famines and the degradation of just about everything we're witnessing today, is all part of the big plan being unleashed on the world. We can also be very sure most of the conservation groups are in on this too, much of what they say and do reeks of corruption of some kind or another, I've not trusted a word they've said for decades. Just think about what's happening out there and know that nothing's failing and it's all happening by design. Added to this of course we now have the well-intended but very misguided lefties who are fuelling things to even greater intensity with their calls for more and more wind-farms and everything sustainable.

But anyway, take a look everyone, and let's all wake up. https://youtu.be/C1CtT5kvdjQ

The Unforeseen Consequences Of Green Politics.

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_5d6966b418b24ac6a6f285a5f339b1e2.pdf

Chainsaw Massacre - Protected areas in danger in Brazil’s state of Rondônia.

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_ee240bf7260542e78832f453bffbc9fb.pdf

The conservationist lefties think they know how to protect the rainforests. This tells them they have no idea and never have had.

UK Defies EU Over Indonesian Palm Oil Trade, Leaked Papers Show.

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_d23ce110318d432fa884686960dc29fb.pdf

This Is Iceland's Banned TV Ad. - Please let's share this far and wide for them!

https://www.facebook.com/icelandfoods/videos/192697168283312/

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_8e942264eafe4b279a4f50aeed7af32e.pdf

RSPO Members’ Concealed Links To Papua Palm Oil Plantations.

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_f5133e040a614b36bea7496f3dc742f6.pdf

Mangrove Restoration. It's about getting it right.

https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_64947d87c15b430fa409262556a57148.pdf

Projects, organisations and individuals we support.

Forest Nature And Environment Aceh. https://www.facebook.com/HAkA.Sumatra/

A. T. Kearney’s Commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative - New Oils for the New World. Looking at Heterotrophic Algal Oil as a viable replacement for Palm Oil. https://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/924901/New+Oils+for+the+New+World.pdf/039e3845-6564-4930-8181-1f223cbbcc33

Palm Oil Free Certification Trademark. https://www.facebook.com/palmoilfreecertification/

CSRC Forests and Wetlands Projects. http://wetlandsandforests.hud.ac.uk/wcc_home.html

Mindo Cloudforest Foundation. http://mindocloudforest.org/

7 Elements Peru. https://www.facebook.com/servicelearningperu/ forests

Coordinadora Mapuche Arauco Malleco. https://www.facebook.com/Coordinadora-Mapuche-Arauco-Malleco-392342120332/

SOS Wildlife & Rainforests. https://www.facebook.com/events/749173985199838/1471101823007047/

Global Resistance To The "Elite" And Corporations. https://www.facebook.com/groups/peepsvselite/

Mangrove Action Project. http://mangroveactionproject.org/

Sintang Orangutan Center. https://www.facebook.com/orangutansintang/

Men of the Forest. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alessandronicoletti/men-of-the-forest

Samboja Lestari Orangutan Project. http://www.orangutanproject.com/

The Samboja Lestari Orangutan Project worked for a time on completely different lines to other Orangutan groups by cultivating and utilising Sugar Palm in order to fund itself. Sugar Palm, which is native to Borneo, actually creates habitat there rather than destroys it. Unfortunately they have since been taken over and infiltrated by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation who are supportive of Oil Palm.

ALERT. http://alert-conservation.org/issues-research-highlights/2017/10/3/the-overwhelming-value-of-trees

Jakarta Animal Aid Network. http://www.jakartaanimalaid.com/domesticcampaigns/save-dennis-save-the-rainforests/

Cikananga. http://www.cikanangawildlifecenter.com/

Spots & Stripes Conservation. https://www.facebook.com/SPOTSandSTRIPES.CON/

Borneo Nature Foundation. http://www.borneonaturefoundation.org/en/

JUICE Malaysia. https://www.facebook.com/JuiceMY/posts/

Sumatran Orangutan Society. http://www.orangutans-sos.org/

Orangutan Information Centre. http://orangutancentre.org/about-us/

Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari (YEL). http://yel.or.id/en/

Palm Oil Awareness. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1671425726403069/

Ashoka. https://www.ashoka.org/en/fellow/panut-hadisiswoyo

Global Wildlife Warriors Brazil. https://www.facebook.com/gww.brazil/