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Re:Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest continues to plunge by hinkley on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @08:22PM (#37503378)
Pretty much all commercial cookies contain palm oil. Including Girl Scouts, which acted a few years ago like they were learning new information and would act on it, and have done nothing.

Although their concerns about Palm Oil weren't (or at least are no longer) about orangutans, they were about child labor.

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Re:Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest continues to plunge by hooverd on Thursday September 14, 2023 @11:24AM (#37510240)
Teach the orangutans to harvest palm fruit.
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Re:Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest continues to plunge by hinkley on Thursday September 14, 2023 @04:22PM (#37514348)
On a more serious note, there is usually nothing for orangs to eat. If they aren’t killed by the construction crew, they migrate to find food.

There is one guy who built a polyculture date palm farm. Date palms, some brambly tree to keep megafauna out, and I forget the rest of the plant species. Except it was habitable by orangs, and semi protected.

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Re:Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest continues to plunge by myshpa on Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:37PM (#37515713)
Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest ?

https://www.ted.com/talks/willie_smits_how_to_restore_a_rain...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vfuCPFb8wk

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Re:Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest continues to plunge by hinkley on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:14PM (#37527072)
I think so yes. I did not learn about him from TED but I found it later.

The moment where he tells the audience to stop clapping for him might be the most respect I’ve gained for anyone in two seconds flat.

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