Genocide in Indonesia: Rothschilds killing the Last Orangutans

The Tripa peatswamp in Aceh is ablaze – despite the moratorium
The forest is an important habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran Orangutan. Nevertheless, the destruction of the Tripa peatswamp forests has been taking place for several years. In June 2009, the Independentspoke to Riswan Zein, of Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari, an Indonesian conservation group. Riswan flew over the Tripa forest in 2007. “So much forest gone, and all in two years, my God,” he told the Independent. “If nothing is done, there’ll be no forest left in one to two years.”

A few years ago PanEco, made a film that highlights the destruction of the Tripa peatswamp. According to PanEco’s website, since the film was made, PT Astra Agro Lestari, a subsidiary of the British conglomerate Jardines Matheson Ltd, has stopped clearing forest in the Tripa peatswamp. But a recent press release from YEL states that PT Astra Agro Lestari is behind some of the current fires in the Tripa peatswamp.

Indonesia’s moratorium, part of the US$1 billion REDD deal between Indonesia and Norway, is supposed, in theory at least, to be addressing problems like that clearing of the Tripa peatswamp forest. In May 2011, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a Presidential Instruction bringing the moratorium into force.

A detailed moratorium map highlights areas in pink that are protected under the moratorium. These maps are updated every six months. While there are loopholes in the moratorium, it is supposed to stop new concessions and it is supposed to protect primary forest. In Tripa, the moratorium has neither stopped a new concession nor has it protected primary forest.
[link to climate-connections.org]

Jardine Matheson Holdings
Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited (SGX: J36, LSE: JAR) often referred to as Jardines, is a multinational corporation incorporated in Bermuda and based in Hong Kong. While listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Singapore Exchange, the vast majority of Jardines shares are traded in Singapore.[1][2] One of the original Hong Kong trading houses or Hongs, as of December 2010, 41% of the company's profits were still earned in China.[3]

With roots that can be traced back to the opium trade, today, Jardines is a Fortune Global 500 company[4] that consists of Jardine Pacific, Jardine Motors Group, Jardine Strategic, Dairy Farm, Hongkong Land, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Jardine Cycle & Carriage and Astra International.[5][6][7] It also owns 42% of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group and has an investment (21%) in Rothschilds Continuation Holdings, the merchant banking house.[3]
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 03/29/2012 08:34 AM

Oh god, I hate to hear this.
How can this be allowed to continue???

By the demand of cheap Cooking Oil,
but to dig deeper watch the Company i mentioned
and look for:

Despite the fact that the moratorium is an important part of the US$1 billion Indonesia-Norway REDD deal, Norway’s Ambassador in Jakarta, Eivind S Homme, seems remarkably relaxed about the destruction that is taking place in the Tripa peatswamp forests.

In February 2012, Homme told Aftenposten that,
“The Indonesian authorities are still investigating this matter and we await their conclusion. The moratorium is one of Indonesia’s chosen tools for reducing deforestation, therefore, any violation of the moratorium is serious. We expect that the moratorium be followed up and violations of it be prosecuted.”

Unfortunately, by the time the Indonesian authorities have finished investigating this matter, the forest will be gone.

We need to call the Norwegians to act today,
they need to help!

Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 03/29/2012 08:57 AM

Scandal in Tripa highlights lack of transparency in revision of the Moratorium Map: promised investigation into suspicious changes not yet materialised.
In May, 2010 Indonesia and Norway signed a Letter of Intent, in which Indonesia stated its intent to reduce emissions from forest and peatland conversions, including a 2-year moratorium on new concessions for converting peatlands and natural forests, while Norway would provide $1 billion to assist Indonesia with establishing REDD projects. The 2-year moratorium was established through Presidential Instruction 10/2011, and the first revision of the "Moratorium on New Permits" Map was issued by the Indonesian Minister of Forestry at the end of November, 2011. The map shows the areas of primary forest (in green) and peat lands (in pink) that are effectively off limits and protected from any new exploitation permits.

In the new revised version of the map, an area in the Tripa peat swamps on the west coast of Aceh, shown as protected peat land in the first edition of the map issued in May, had been mysteriously removed from the areas under protection (see map). Coincidentally, just a few days earlier, the Aceh branch of WALHI/Friends of the Earth Indonesia had launched a court case in Aceh against the Governor of Aceh and oil palm company PT Kallista Alam, requesting the cancelling of the Governor's permit issued to Kallista Alam, to convert this very same area of forest on deep peat land to an oil palm plantation. The permit was issued on the 25th of August, 2011, three months AFTER the first edition of the map clearly outlined the area as protected and off limits to any new exploitation permits.

The illegal concession was a major issue for the Indonesian delegation at the UNCCC in Durban, South Africa, with Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, the head of the President's own special task force of reducing carbon emissions, explaining:

"While we recognise the need for the palm oil industry to also grow, signing an agreement with a palm oil company to allow the conversion of protected peat land into palm oil plantations, very clearly breaks the moratorium."

Norway's Ambassador to Indonesia, Eivind Homme, told Reuters he was surprised by news of the breach and called on the national government to investigate.
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Stop Biofuelling Deforestation:
How your fuel bills are subsidising deforestation - and what you can do about it!

Demand for agricultural land is at the heart of the mass destruction of the world's forests. The main cause of forest loss in Indonesia, and the greatest threat to the continued survival of orangutans in the wild, is the conversion of forests to oil palm plantations.

Orangutans share their forest home with countless other critically endangered species, including Sumatran tigers, elephants, and rhinos. Agricultural expansion is also linked to other causes of biodiversity decline including hunting, poaching, human-wildlife conflict, illegal logging, and forest fires. Tropical forests are also crucial carbon sinks, so losing these habitats would be catastrophic in terms of the global fight to prevent dangerous climate change.

Yet, shockingly, the UK government is considering offering subsidies to power stations to burn biofuels - including palm oil - for heat and power. And what's more, this is being funded through our fuel bills!

These subsidies, called Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) are the government's way of supporting renewable energy technologies, as part of plans to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions. Nobody would deny that we need more investment in renewables, but, as well as supporting clean technologies such as wind farms, ROCs also finance electricity generation from the burning of bioliquids such as palm oil.

On top of the threat that this increase in demand for fuel crops poses to tropical forests and biodiversity, some biofuels have been shown to actually lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions!
[link to www.orangutans-sos.org]

Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 03/29/2012 09:09 AM

That is so sad, I love Orangutans.

Me too but Love is the wrong Word!

They are important for the World as well as for us,
a Society who is killing them will vanish very soon too!

Since F'Shima happened i totally lost the focus
of the World-Problems, always F'Shima, F'Shima and F'Shima,
distracted me from the Things we can change so easily!

The Company behind this Fires is one of the Global Players
and exactly one of the Companies who fear Publicity!
(The Story of this Company started with Opium, the Opium Wars
and the enslavement of the whole Chinese Nation!)

We need to rise the awareness for this Problem
before it is to late and we can see the Woodpeople
only in a Brothel, Zoo or Pharma-Concentration Camps!

Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 03/29/2012 09:37 AM

Because it is Friday Night!

Do no one care my lovely Friends?

Hundreds of orangutans killed in north Indonesian forest fires deliberately started by palm oil firms
Hundreds of orangutans are believed to have died in fires deliberately lit by palm oil companies.

Conservationists say the rare Sumatran orangutan could be wiped out within weeks.

‘It is no longer several years away, but just a few months or even weeks before this iconic creature disappears,’ said Briton Ian Singleton, of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme.
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Land clearing fires have been started inside the forest, resulting in the animals fleeing - but hundreds are feared to have died in the flames because Indonesians in the employ of the palm oil companies have been accused of driving them back into the flames.
[link to www.dailymail.co.uk]


Up in smoke: ecological catastrophe in the Sumatran swamps
Fires raging unchecked in an Indonesian peat swamp forest could wipe out the remaining Sumatran orang-utans which live there, conservationists are warning.

The forest is one of the last refuges of the great apes.


The illegal fires, started by palm-oil companies clearing land to plant the lucrative crop, are believed to have killed at least 100 orang-utans – one-third of those living in the Tripa swamp, on the west coast of Sumatra's Aceh province. The rest could die within weeks, according to Dr Ian Singleton, conservation director of the Sumatran Orang-utan Conservation Programme.
[link to www.independent.co.uk]

Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 03/30/2012 01:32 PM

Maybe a new Thread Title?
Genocide in Indonesia:

Cant belief that only 75 People care!

I care and hundreds of others care, too.
Lots of action alerts and petitions going around.

I have been trying to find some information on PT Kalista Alam (have also seen it spelled Kallista). Who owns it? Who do they sell to?

Would you know??

Posting Nr. 2!

???
PT Kalista is also a subsidiary of the British conglomerate Jardines Matheson Ltd??

Yip, it is,
so the Adresser is known,
articulate your Anger!

Op-Ed: Outrage as palm oil companies exterminate hundreds of orang-utans
Devastating fires deliberately set by palm oil companies in Indonesia may have killed hundreds of Sumatran orang-utans. And the land grab means the creatures may have only weeks or a few months, before disappearing forever.

The fires are the latest move in a sickening and gut-wrenching war waged on orang-utans by palm oil companies over land in northern Indonesia, says the UK's Daily Mail.

Hundreds of the arboreal great apes, recognized by their reddish-brown hair and uniquely expressive faces, may have perished in the fires allegedly started by palm oil companies in the Tripa forest on the coast of Aceh province.

It is one of the largest remaining populations of wild orangutans in the world.

More devastating, are the reported claims of palm oil employees forcing fleeing orang-utans back into the burning forest, to their deaths
[link to www.digitaljournal.com]

There are times we should all be ashamed to be human. This is one of them.



Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 04/01/2012 08:33 AM

Indonesia land clearance 'wiping out' orangutans
Critically-endangered orangutans in a protected area of Indonesia will be wiped out by the end of the year if land clearing is not stopped, a coalition of environmental groups warned Wednesday.

The government must immediately halt the clearance of forest in the 13,000-hectare (32,000 acres) peat swamps in Tripa, Aceh province, the groups, including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth said.

They also called on the government to investigate the use of fire by palm oil companies for land clearing and reinforce existing laws protecting the ecosystem.

Ian Singleton, conservation director of Swiss-based PanEco, one of the groups making up the Coalition for Protection of Tripa Swamp, said the roughly 200 orangutans left in the peat swamps will be gone in months if the fires continue.

"The speed of destruction, fires, burning and everything has gone up dramatically in the last few weeks, let alone in the last year, and this is obviously a deliberate drive by these companies to clear all the remaining forests," he said.

"If this is not stopped right now, then all those orangutans, all those forests, will be gone before the end of 2012."

Experts believe there are about 50,000 to 60,000 of the two species of orangutans left in the wild, 80 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia.
[link to www.google.com]

Me (and Moe) love to Shill for the Wood-People

Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 04/02/2012 10:41 AM

Palm oil is used to make bio-diesel.

So they are killing the environment to save the environment. I know, that makes no sense.

The truth is, if you love the environment, you have to support drilling/coal-to-oil/shale-to-oil.

At least until we come up with some new technology that will allow us to have plentiful energy for our needs.

You are right!

What i found so disgusting is "Jardine Matheson Holdings"
is acting like 150 Years before,
how can a Top 500 Company still doing so creepy things!

A total Boycott may help because only a Company like
Jardine Matheson Holdings would be able to stop this Fires
through a massive Fire extinction Action with Thousands
of People who can fight the Flames,
the Indonesian Government would need to much Time
and the Time is running out!

Because it's okay when the 'juice' do it?

Filthy Scum

This is more than the Rothchilds. They made the mistake of taking on the rest of the globes cabals under their wings. Now they turned into THE BEAST. It will take a great battle to fix this problem.

Keep educating others

So what? There are no more Neanderthals, Homo Erectus or dozens of other non-human primates walking the Earth today either. Extinction happens, and sometimes the cause of that extinction is habitat destruction or competition form other species.

Trying to "Save the {ENDANGERED_SPECIES}" is naive and futile. I know it tugs at the heartstrings if you're an overly sensitive person, but harden up and focus on the real problems of the world for a change.

I've heard of a red monkey but never heard of an orange utan

But i can open my Mouth
and start to cry/ shout that i do not want to see this!

I will do what ever is possible to help the Wood-People
because they are important for us,
without them we may lose a piece of our Heart!

Indonesia court refuses to rule on peat swamp case
A court in western Indonesia on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit brought by conservationists challenging further development of peat swamp forests they say will threaten the few remaining orangutans who live there.

Indonesia's largest environmental group, Walhi, wanted the court to revoke a license granted by the Aceh provincial government to palm oil company PT Kallista Alam. The license allows the company to convert 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) of the Tripa peat swamp forest into a palm oil plantation.
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The Tripa forest -- which in the early 1990s was home to around 3,000 Sumatran orangutans -- today has just 200. There are 6,600 Sumatran orangutans left in the wild, and the Tripa forest has the densest population in the world
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Aceh's government and PT Kallista Alam welcomed the judges' decision.
[link to www.businessweek.com]

Orangutans gone by end of 2012 unless deforestation halted
At the present time, the interests of the orangutans, other wildlife and human communities in Tripa are best served by trying to get the current wave of forest destruction and burning in Tripa halted IMMEDIATELY.

Indonesia actually has a lot of legislation that supports good environmental management and conservation: our immediate focus is to cajole government agencies into enforcing their own laws.

Thus in this particular case there will be an appeal by WALHI in the higher courts, and we also need to intensify lobbying of the central Government in Jakarta to enforce the law in all the concessions in Tripa.

The many supporters overseas can help with all these efforts, both by expressing their support through petitions etc., but also with funding for the campaign and lobby work itself as these are often difficult to raise money for.

Things like press conferences, travelling to government offices in Jakarta and elsewhere, legal analyses, even internet and printing: all cost money and in this case even small donations can make a big difference.
[link to www.digitaljournal.com]

Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 04/04/2012 10:45 AM

Unfortunately for you, killing animals is not considered genocide, even though in your mentally disturbed fantasy brain it is.

Appeal likely in palm oil dispute
THE courts in Aceh have failed to protect a carbon-rich peat forest and critically endangered orang utans from the actions of a palm oil company which Jakarta acknowledges has acted illegally.

After five months of detailed argument, the three-judge court sitting in Banda Aceh threw the case out on jurisdictional grounds, saying the complainants from the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) should first have sought mediation with the company.

The lawyer for the complainants, Kamaruddin, said the judges had used the wrong legislation - the environmental law, not administrative law - to make their determination, and said an appeal was likely.
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The area is one of the last redoubts of the endangered Sumatran orang utan
[link to www.smh.com.au]

You are a Animal too!

This are Human Life-Forms!

Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 04/04/2012 11:03 AM

read the label on food : do not buy fattening #palmoil [link to twitter.com]