Films4Conservation
cradled head
Central Kalimantan, Borneo 2005
Film still from "Minyak atau Orangutan?"
Cockroach Productions' Orangutan Film Protection Project.
An orangutan in shock. This female has just been rescued by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. She is undernourished and suffering from a knife attack sustained when in a oil palm plantation. Oil palm plantations are spreading rapidly, clearing primary forest and destroying orangutan habitat. Palm oil is found in 10% of supermarket products in the UK. Since we began our work and our lobbying we have achieved 95% of supermarket sector signing up to the RSPO and principles of sustainability. Hopefully this will have some impact. Meanwhile we are distributing local language training films in the oil palm plantations through our friends at GAFI.
It is sobering and terrible to think that in the time we have been working on these projects as many as 12,000 orangutans may have died in Borneo and Sumatra... 20% of the populations (two species)...
Find out more about our work at:
cradled head
Central Kalimantan, Borneo 2005
Film still from "Minyak atau Orangutan?"
Cockroach Productions' Orangutan Film Protection Project.
An orangutan in shock. This female has just been rescued by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. She is undernourished and suffering from a knife attack sustained when in a oil palm plantation. Oil palm plantations are spreading rapidly, clearing primary forest and destroying orangutan habitat. Palm oil is found in 10% of supermarket products in the UK. Since we began our work and our lobbying we have achieved 95% of supermarket sector signing up to the RSPO and principles of sustainability. Hopefully this will have some impact. Meanwhile we are distributing local language training films in the oil palm plantations through our friends at GAFI.
It is sobering and terrible to think that in the time we have been working on these projects as many as 12,000 orangutans may have died in Borneo and Sumatra... 20% of the populations (two species)...
Find out more about our work at: