Deforestation, Palm Oil and the Frankenfish
In 2002, the United States have discovered the existence of the Giant Snakehead in a lake in Maryland. Instead of joy at the presence of a new species and one of sport’s most impressive freshwater table fish in Asia, has launched a racket under the threat environment and spawning, as the claims, “can” walk on its fins and “living in day-to-country”.
They argued that the voracious Snakehead would devour everything in its path and be a major threat to the ecosystem. It may some truth to this claim as one of the serpent’s head and voracious predators that would make some native species extinct.
However, North and South America also have their own predators, some even more formidable as the Giant Snakehead. They even have the whole lake drained just to make sure that the giant snakehead has no chance to survive, and the term “Frank Fish” was created.
It has even led to ridiculous films like terror and Swarm of the Snakehead Snakehead that the snake’s head like a man a fish eater depicted. These films give the Great White look like a poodle!
In truth, the snakehead known toman in Malaysia and Indonesia is one of the games most popular freshwater fish in Asia, is one of the most majestic view in cool water. Often they are seen gliding gracefully in the area “breathe”, their glossy dark green and black striped Armor camouflaged against weeds of green water.
Toman build nests by digging in the mud, and are the main predators in many freshwater lakes in the region. They eat almost everything – small fish, frogs, turtles and even small ducks. The giant snakehead tolerant of low oxygen levels because they have the ability to air bites the surface, they are often murky waters.
This ability to survive under anaerobic conditions, which gives them their reputation for “walking on land and survive days without water. Juvenile snakeheads swim in schools, but adults are solitary predators, but they often swim in pairs, especially when protecting their young.
If you find their babies, they are almost always nearby to protect their young. This young Toman, with nary a care in their young lives, creating ripples on the water, they swim and frolic on the surface.
Toman are very territorial, especially near their nest or young, and casting a lure or Popper to school FRYS almost always lead to a violent strike by a parent.
But how someone set these magnificent creatures in a light evil is indeed disconcerting.
Unfortunately the current state of Western NGOs and Western media in their treatment of palm oil.
Palm oil is basically a good vegetable oil and olive oil. Rich in anti-oxidants such as Co-Q10, tocotrienols and beta-carotene journals, numerous studies in peer review have shown that a diet of palm oil lowers plasma cholesterol and raise HDL (good cholesterol).
And it takes less land – the land much less – the same amount of palm oil over other oils. Palm oil has a yield of 4-5 tons per hectare, which is ten times larger than its nearest competitors. This innate efficiency of land use in oil palm is inherently the most durable of all the seeds of edible oil. The production is much less harmful to the environment than any other oil.
But environmental NGOs like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth with the international press a false picture of the oil palm oil is unhealthy is bad for the environment.
The anti-palm oil lobby has found a very effective icon in the orang-utan – the principle promotes the myth that these cute plush creatures are deprived of their habitat by the results of the oil palm raptors massive deforestation and the threat to their existence.
This meant that Malaysia was decades ago and still not all orang-utan ago. The industry of palm oil is to support conservation efforts of orangutans. A few months ago, the Malaysian Palm Oil Council has launched a U.S. $ 6 million Farm and support wildlife conservation industry centers conservation orang-utans in Sabah and Sarawak. Contrary to the perception painted by NGOs and international media for their imminent extinction, the orang-utan is found in Peninsular Malaysia, only in the western states of Sabah and Sarawak.
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