How to regrow a rainforest – Willie Smits on TED Talks

Mar 9

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Willie and the orangs

Willie and the orangs

My Grade 12 class have looked at this story before, and now we can hear about it from Willie Smitts, a primatologist and conservationist who has led a huge project to replant and revive a section on rainforest in Borneo. They have taken over 8,000 hectares of scorched and cleared land and are returning it to a habitat worthy of orang-utans and many more endangered species.

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Smits was featured in TED2009 and here he is with his story of how they regrew the rainforest.

About Stephen

International Educator: China via Japan, Indonesia & the UK. Director of Innovation in Learning & Teaching. Science educator. Twitterist (@sjtylr), dad and bloggerer. MA International Education & current EdD student. Experienced Director of Learning & MYP Coordinator. Interested in curriculum, pedagogy, purposeful EdTech and global competence. Find out more: http://sjtylr.net/about. Science site: http://i-biology.net.

Posted on March 9, 2009, in Environments, Human Impacts, National Geographic, TED talks, The Natural World and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.

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