Nature Alert: Campaigner of the Year

Saturday, 16 February 2008

Campaigner of the Year

Leading the campaign to save orangutans

and stop palm oil companies

from destroying the remaining

rainforests in Borneo, is

a brave person called
Hardi Baktiantoro - founder of

The Centre for Orangutan Protection.

http://www.orangutanprotection.com/

If, like me, you feel he deserves more

recognition then why not click on the

link below and nominate Hardi for
the Campaigner of the Year Award,
perhaps also for running the

Campaign of the Year Award as well?

This will not only recognise his good work, it will also
help raise his profile in Indonesia and this will help the
campaign to save orangutans.

Please do so today - there's not much time left

Just click on
https://www.global-research.net/oea/survey.asp?p=3

Hall of Shame for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the Palm Oil Industry.

Nothing can prepare one for the sight of the systematic extermination of orangutans by the government of Indonesia.

Look at the photos and news articles on these pages in the context of a statement the President made to the media on 10th December 2007.

“In the last 35 years about 50,000 orangutans are estimated to have been lost as their habitats shrank. If this continues, this majestic creature will likely face extinction by 2050,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the launch of an orangutan conservation plan at the climate talks in Bali.

“The fate of the orangutan is a subject that goes to the heart of sustainable forests … To save the orangutan we have to save the forest.”

Statements like these are most welcome, but unless backed up by action, such words fall on deaf ears within the Ministry of Forestry....who are busy granting licences to cut down the very forests the President says they should protect!

When you think you are to busy to help, please could you reflect for a moment on .........

The following extract refers to environmental problems in general. I just hope you find it as thought provoking and relevant to orangutans as I have.

"This is such a shocking and unpalatable fact that most people deny it, or they just don't want to think about it. They believe as individuals, they can do little about it, so push it to the back of their minds. But I can't do that.

When something has to be done, we need to do it. It doesn't matter how big the challenge is or how hard the solution; if I know something is wrong, and I am in a position to help, I will do my best to make it right." Duncan Bannatyne, successful British businessman.