The Year it All Changed

Here is a new youtube video from TreeSisters.  It is a story being told from the future about this time we find ourselves living in.  Check it out:

And in case wonder how this could have been possible, here is a link to a tedtalk by Willie Smits.  Smits who was born in the Netherlands is a trained forester, microbiologist, conservationist, animal rights activist, wilderness engineer and social entrepreneur.  He has lived in Indonesia since 1985 and is a citizen there.  While doing forest research in Indonesia in 1989 his career was changed when he encountered a baby orangutan who had been discarded in a market and was dying.  This was the beginning of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation which led Smits into the areas of sustainable farming, reforestation and working with the local people to protect the forests.  He has achieved amazing results on a small scale which he feels are reproduceable elsewhere.  He describes it all here:

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