Nature Alert: "The REDD APE"

Thursday, 17 December 2009

"The REDD APE"

The brand new movie and so much waited "The REDD APE", "Orangutan, A Climate Chance", is now.

Companies such as SPICERS (see recent blog posts) contribute to this decimation - and if you buy any paper for home or office use without knowing for CERTAIN where the pulp for the paper originated from, you may also be part of the problem.

NEW LINK BELOW

You can take a look on You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUQWpJgCEy8

The documentary will be showed for the first time ever on Monday 14 around 3PM in Copenhagen during Film festival at Danish Film Institute - Det Danske Filminstitut, as part of the REDD day of the film festival during the COP-15.

Summary of the Film. The REDD Ape (Orangutan, a climate chance)

Orang-utans and local communities have saved peat land and rainforest for millennia. Now short term economic greed is destroying it in decades, releasing huge carbon stores and threatening humanity itself. Caught into the middle of the public discourse « on what to do? » to save the climate, with no concrete actions, orang-utans populations are quickly vanishing, a genocide. What might think the orangutans, probably the most intelligent non-human ape of its human cousin? The documentary provides a clear orangutan’s answer.

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.