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WWF's Conservation Island
A virtual world |
Sarah van Schagen |
17 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I scream, you scream, we all scream for an orangutan selling ice cream. On WWF's virtual island in online world Second Life. From the press release: On Conservation Island, if residents "buy" an ice-cream from Mr Tangee, the orangutan who runs the ice-cream van, they will have the chance to learn that plantations to provide the soy and palm oil found in an array of everyday products, from ice-cream to cosmetics and chocolate bars, already cover ... |
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| Topics: education, green living, tech, websites, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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