Save the Orangutans
Wednesday, October 28. 2009
Borneo’s orangutans are facing injury, disease and death as their homes are being destroyed by humans logging for an expanding palm oil industry.
Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) explains that the most important risk factor to the orangutans is their loss of habitat. Their homes, forests in Indonesia and Malaysia, have declined by more than 80% in the last 20 years and the major reason for this is a combination of legal and illegal logging for the growing palm oil industry. Palm Oil is only grown in tropical environments, which are home to the orangutans.
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) is working with Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) foundation to create the largest orangutan sanctuary, Nyaru Menteng. Nyaru Menteng is already home to more than 650 rescued orangutans. Most of the orangutans already in the sanctuary are orphaned babies. Inka, is one orphan, whose mother was killed in front of her then, to make matters worse she was then carted off for sale on the black market. Inka is okay today, because of Nyaru Menteng, which provides six years of rehabilitation. The rehabilitation includes learning the skills their mother would have taught them, before they are released into the wild. Nyaru Menteng needs funding though as more and more orangutans need rescuing as their homes are destroyed.
Femail shares WSPA’s vision of a world where animal welfare matters and animal cruelty ends.
Trilogy has launched a campaign to support the endangered Orangutans with $1.00 from each sale of the Certified Organic Rosehip Oil going to the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.
