Urgent Orang-Utan Appeal
With the BBC's stunning new wildlife series, Life, hitting our screens last week we thought that now would be a good time to highlight the plight of one of the animals most at risk by human activity, the Orang-utan. Because of the world demand for Palm Oil, the forests of Borneo are disappearing before our eyes. Palm Oil is used in hundreds of food products that we buy in our supermarkets every day - from margarine and chocolate to cream cheese and oven chips.
This is bad news for Orang-utans and the other wildlife, including Pygmy Elephant, Malayan Sun-bears and Proboscis Monkey that depend on these forests for their survival. It is thought that Orang-utan populations have halved over the last 20 years and they are now seriously threatened with extinction. Two members of Media Bounty have seen this first hand. As you drive from the capital of Borneo, Kota Kinabalu on the north coast of the island to the Orang-utan sanctuary Sepilok, palm oil plantations stretch out as far as the eye can see. Orang-utans and other wildlife are now confined to small pockets of the island. If the forests are allowed to dwindle further these magnificent cousins of ours will soon be confined to the history books.
To find out more about the Orang-utan Appeal and receive project updates go to the World Land Trust website: http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/malaysia.htm where you can also learn more about The World Land Trust's upcoming event, The Red Ape Debate, 27 November.
The World Land Trust is an international conservation organisation working to preserve the world's most biologically important and threatened lands. Supported by Sir David Attenborough and working with local organisations in Central and South America, the Philippines and India, the Trust has helped protect over 400,000 acres of threatened wildlife habitats since its foundation in 1989.
Media Bounty is proud to support the World Land Trust. In 2009 we have bought and protected 43 acres of threatened wildlife habitat.
With the BBC's stunning new wildlife series, Life, hitting our screens last week we thought that now would be a good time to highlight the plight of one of the animals most at risk by human activity, the Orang-utan. Because of the world demand for Palm Oil, the forests of Borneo are disappearing before our eyes. Palm Oil is used in hundreds of food products that we buy in our supermarkets every day - from margarine and chocolate to cream cheese and oven chips.
This is bad news for Orang-utans and the other wildlife, including Pygmy Elephant, Malayan Sun-bears and Proboscis Monkey that depend on these forests for their survival. It is thought that Orang-utan populations have halved over the last 20 years and they are now seriously threatened with extinction. Two members of Media Bounty have seen this first hand. As you drive from the capital of Borneo, Kota Kinabalu on the north coast of the island to the Orang-utan sanctuary Sepilok, palm oil plantations stretch out as far as the eye can see. Orang-utans and other wildlife are now confined to small pockets of the island. If the forests are allowed to dwindle further these magnificent cousins of ours will soon be confined to the history books.
To find out more about the Orang-utan Appeal and receive project updates go to the World Land Trust website: http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/malaysia.htm where you can also learn more about The World Land Trust's upcoming event, The Red Ape Debate, 27 November.
The World Land Trust is an international conservation organisation working to preserve the world's most biologically important and threatened lands. Supported by Sir David Attenborough and working with local organisations in Central and South America, the Philippines and India, the Trust has helped protect over 400,000 acres of threatened wildlife habitats since its foundation in 1989.
Media Bounty is proud to support the World Land Trust. In 2009 we have bought and protected 43 acres of threatened wildlife habitat.
Posted In: Events 16.10.09 at 13:30
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