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This week is Orangutan Awareness Week. Established in 1971 Camp Leakey in Borneo was created as a sanctuary to save the orangutan population in that part of Indonesia.
Since that time they have saved many orangutans who found themselves without a home when the palm oil industry continually cut down their rain forest. Now there is an intense fire raging through the area making it almost unfit for any living thing to survive.
The Government of Indonesia has caved in when dealing with the industry because of financial gain so the pillaging continues. Camp Leakey would welcome donations so they can continue to provide a safe environment for especially the very young orangutans who have been left without mothers. I have visited the camp and was impressed with their work. Several documentaries have focused on their efforts as well. Of course, the easiest thing to do is to stop buying any product with palm oil in it! alj.am/2y7g The previous link is to an article explaining how the palm oil industry is devastating the region!
Thank you Julius for this link!!! www.orangutan.org.uk/current-news/events/434-orangutan-aw
This article shows next week as the week set aside in the UK. The notice sent out by the camp in Indonesia shows the week beginning on November 1.
Please Help Me Survive
This week is Orangutan Awareness Week. Established in 1971 Camp Leakey in Borneo was created as a sanctuary to save the orangutan population in that part of Indonesia.
Since that time they have saved many orangutans who found themselves without a home when the palm oil industry continually cut down their rain forest. Now there is an intense fire raging through the area making it almost unfit for any living thing to survive.
The Government of Indonesia has caved in when dealing with the industry because of financial gain so the pillaging continues. Camp Leakey would welcome donations so they can continue to provide a safe environment for especially the very young orangutans who have been left without mothers. I have visited the camp and was impressed with their work. Several documentaries have focused on their efforts as well. Of course, the easiest thing to do is to stop buying any product with palm oil in it! alj.am/2y7g The previous link is to an article explaining how the palm oil industry is devastating the region!
Thank you Julius for this link!!! www.orangutan.org.uk/current-news/events/434-orangutan-aw
This article shows next week as the week set aside in the UK. The notice sent out by the camp in Indonesia shows the week beginning on November 1.