Many orangutans today are facing starvation, torture, and trauma often leading to death. For the orangutan species, the impact could be terminal. But it’s not yet too late to change this. We can still halt and eventually change the current course of events. But to do so the orangutans need big and immediate help.
Over 90% of the natural habitat of orangutans has been lost due to illegal logging and encroaching palm oil plantations. Adults get killed because they are simply in the way, or so that their babies can be sold in the lucrative and illegal pet trade. If they aren’t killed as their habitat is razed, they may simply starve.
The orangutan is mankind’s closest living cousin, sharing 97% of our DNA. If we fail to act, the fate of extinction of our close relative could be sealed within five years.
We refuse to accept that this will happen.
With you, we can still change the current course of events.
If Big Help is not possible in the current economic climate; then they need a lot more people making smaller steps. That is why it is so important that you also play a part.
Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) runs the world’s largest orangutan sanctuary: Nyaru Menteng, in Borneo which cares for over 650 orangutans. They rescue orangutans from starvation, from the illegal pet trade, and from the verge of death. Many are orphans, mutilated and traumatised. The sanctuary’s inspiration and manager is Lone Droscher Nielsen. Lone and her babysitters nurse these babies back to health and raise them, teaching them the skills they need to again enjoy a life in the wild.
BOS plays an important role in shaping the future for the orangutan and the Bornean rainforest as it partners the Indonesian government on a long term strategic plan involving sustainable palm oil production and clamping down on killing orangutans and the illegal pet trade.
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and BOS have joined forces to secure the future for the orangutan and its habitat. WSPA will help raise money to support BOS and keep Nyaru Menteng open and able to rescue, nurse, and eventually rehabilitate its inhabitants.
Additionally, in a ground-breaking three-year initiative WSPA will develop BOS’s ability to become a sustainable organisation with secure, sustainable income that will allow BOS to keep fighting for the orangutan and its habitat for as long as it is needed.
Please come and play a vital part and help Nyaru Menteng to stay that one safe haven the orangutans so desperately need.
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