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The Search for Sanctuary: Orphan Apes

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Written by Jocelyne Grzela
Monday, 10 August 2009 17:18

The Search for Sanctuary: Orphan Apes

By Hillary Rosner | NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 1, 2009
From Newsweek magazine issue dated Aug 17, 2009
 
A hundred or so orangutans have just returned from a day at "forest school," where they learn to find food, use tools and fear snakes. Assembled on a lawn, they act much like any group of kids at recess—congregating in small groups, clocking each other over the head, holding hands, turning somersaults and adroitly climbing a jungle gym. These apes are orphans, having lost their forest homes to palm-oil plantations and their mothers to poachers who sell the babies to an illegal pet trade. A few still bear the marks etched into their necks from the months or years they spent in chains. The staff at the Nyaru Menteng orangutan sanctuary, in Central Kalimantan on the Indonesian side of Borneo, is painstakingly raising the apes, acting as surrogates for orangutan mothers who rear their young for up to eight years. Once they're old enough and wise enough to survive on their own, the apes move to islands that serve as halfway houses until the animals can be placed back into the jungle.
 
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Last Updated ( Monday, 10 August 2009 17:27 )

Interview With FollowNathan

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Written by Jocelyne Grzela
Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:33

Click on the link to listen to an interview with Dan Tefft and Nathan Winters of FollowNathan.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1441928

 

Last Updated ( Saturday, 30 May 2009 22:09 )

Carbon Emissions

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Written by Jocelyne Grzela
Saturday, 30 May 2009 21:55

Carbon Emissions | May 26, 2009 | by Zaher Karp

New Players, Services to Grow Carbon Trading

Global carbon trading on voluntary markets more than doubled from 2007 to 2008, reaching $708 million. The market will grow again in 2009 as individuals and businesses continue to work to procure carbon offsets, new entry points are opening up and redefining the consumer's role in a market.

Consumer involvement in carbon markets is growing due to new accessible offset programs, exchanges and web-based trading mechanisms. But the rapidly increasing number of services for procuring carbon offsets can make it a challenge to find certificates or documentation that validates the greenhouse-gas reductions.

Some of the main features of the recently proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act are the required 17-percent reduction (from 2005 levels) in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 and 83-percent by 2050. The bill would also initially provide carbon permits to emissions-intensive industries and utilities, and later years would transition to permit auctions.

 

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