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Laws flaunted: flourishing pet trade threatens orangutan survival

Posted on by Sally Kneidel

This post now on Google News and on the syndicated BasilandSpice.com Pet trade threatens orangutan survival “Having a pet orangutan is a status symbol,” I was told by my Indonesian friend Ria, who lives and works in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital.…

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Searching for a wild orangutan…

Posted on by Sally Kneidel

This post on Google News and on the syndicated site BasilandSpice. On my Asian quest to see wild and semi-wild orangutans, I wasn’t sure I’d find a single one of the red apes roaming free in a forest. Orangutans used…

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Orangutans dwindle as Borneo, Sumatra converted to palm-oil plantations

Posted on by Sally Kneidel

Text and all photos by Sally Kneidel, PhD This post also on the syndicated site BasilandSpice. I’ve wanted to visit Indonesia for years – it has more tropical rain forest than almost any other country. Only Brazil has more. Indonesia…

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Posted in Asia, Bali, Borneo, Deforestation, Eco-travel, Ecosystems, Endangered species, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java, Malaysia, Rain forest, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat, Wildlife survival

Innovative oral history project makes human rights crises personal

Posted on by Sally Kneidel

This post written by Sadie Kneidel In a small office in San Francisco, a team of authors, scholars, professors, and staff are focused on an Asian nation most Americans can’t even pinpoint on a map. Burma. Before this it was…

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Prescient or Pessimistic? Scientists debate possible oil spill tsunamis

Posted on by Sally Kneidel

This post written by Sadie Kneidel Might the Gulf have its own way of wrapping up the BP oil spill? According to the Huffington Post, geologists speculate that this man-made disaster could result in a natural catastrophe far worse than…

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Still in Puerto Rico: the natural treasures of Guanica and its mangrove forests

Posted on by Sally Kneidel

Photos and text by Sally Kneidel, PhD This is the fifth and last post about a birdwatching and hiking trip to Puerto Rico in March of 2010. In search of a great beach…and tropical nature After we left the town…

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Gulf Oil Spill 2010: Drilling for Dollars, Not Oil

Posted on by Sally Kneidel

by Ken Kneidel, PhD We’re discovering a lot of money, not a lot of oil The oil under the Gulf is not being extracted to extend our ability to live in an oil-driven economy, nor to provide energy independence from…

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We’re importing oil from poor countries with far more spills

Posted on by Sally Kneidel

This post now on BasilandSpice.com. After my post a few days ago about the oil spill and its consequences to wildlife, I got a few interesting messages from friends and acquaintances. My friend Sonia, the director of a land conservancy…

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Oil Spill 2010: Wildlife Danger Considered Terrifying

Posted on by Sally Kneidel

This post is now on Google News. Also on Basilandspice.com which is partnered with Newstex, TOPIX, EIN McClatchy-Tribune News Service and other media outlets. On Thursday April 29, the slick from the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico covered…

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In Puerto Rico: Jayuya and the Toro Negro State Forest

Posted on by Sally Kneidel

Photos and text by Sally Kneidel, PhD Driving from the coast to the town of Jayuya in La Cordillera Central is not easy. Although the mountain roads of Puerto Rico are paved, most are extremely narrow and curvy. On our…

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Our other blog, Veggie Revolution, focuses more on food than this one does, especially the environmental, health and humane aspects of our food choices. That blog was started in 2005 and continues today, while the blog you're reading now began in 2009. Some of the newer posts are on both blogs, but Veggie Rev has at least 260 more posts than this blog, including Sadie's travels to Morocco. In the sidebar of Veggie Rev, you'll see links to each year that can take you back to all the posts for a particular year.

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