Driven To Destruction
Saving Our Orang-utans And Rainforest
Saving Our Orang-Utans.
We aim to raise awareness on the ever growing problem of non-sustainable Palm Oil and convince people that there are other, safer products to use. We also help many charities to save the lives of many unfortunate Orang-Utans, and release them back into the wild. Sadly, Orang-Utans are predicted to become extinct in less than 10 years, which means it is a race against time to ensure that they don't. You don't know what you've got, until it's gone.
Say NO to Bio-Fuel and Palm-Oil ...
Palm Oil is the biggest threat to the orangutans and their habitat, massive areas of rainforest are destroyed every second to make room for this oil palm plantation, to make hydrogenated vegatable oil which is in 1 in 10 supermarket products. There are compainies using sustainable palm oil, but most simply think its cheaper to destroy land to plant these crops. But the lives of orangutans living in the areas soon to be destroyed is priceless.
Helping Stop Deforestation ...
E-mail me your pictures of your fundraisers or posters that you have made or anything you have done to raise awareness about the extinction of orang-utans, and i will post them on this website. It is also used as an instant mesenger...
News:
May 16, 2009 The population of orangutans in Indonesia’s Kutai National Park has plunged by 90 percent in the past five years due to large-scale deforestation promoted by local authorities, reports The Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP), an Indonesian environmental group. According to park officials interviewed by COP, the population of morio orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus morio) declined from 600 in 2004 to 30-60 this year. COP attributes the drop to state-sponsored colonization of the Kutai, which has led to hunting and forest clearing. Kutai—located in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo—has long suffered from encroachment, illegal logging, forest fires, and “re-zoning” by officials to allow for coal mining and other activities. The park is home to 11 species of primate and more than 300 species of birds. It is a popular destination for ecotourists. The population of orangutans in Borneo is uncertain, but most scientists estimate there are fewer than 50,000 individuals. Large-scale forest loss due to logging, conversion for oil palm, and fires have replaced the pet trade as the leading threats to the orangutan. -Borneo Orangutan Survival
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On Wednesday 19th November 2008, I held a raffle stall and various other things to sell
at my school's christmas fair. I raffled many monkey and ape teddies, and also had many
posters of information about various threats to the orangutan and its habitat; such as palm
oil and the illegal pet trade. As a total on the night i raised £100.72 for the
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundaiton.
'The Stall'
