Nature Alert: July 2010

Friday, 30 July 2010

Ministry of Orangutan Cruelty held to account.

A Thai Zoo poster telling the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry what it does not want to either see or hear. i.e. the truth.

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Wednesday, 28 July 2010

News about orangutans

Interested in orangutans and rainforests?

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Then please send an email to sw@naturealert.org with NEWS PLEASE added to the Subject box.

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STOP PRESS: More news and photos posted on my (Sean Whyte)Facebook account.

Wednesday, 7 July 2010

The message below is the conclusion of many months dialogue with this company. Nature Alert and its fantastic supporters have deprived AP&P from sending more of its environmentally destructive paper to Europe. This is what can be achieved when you are passionate and persistent about an issue. It also proves sending letters does work.

THANK YOU to all who gave me your support and helped with sending letters to Spicers

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Hi Sean Following your email a few days ago, I have explored further as to our current status are pleased to advise that Spicers UK has accelerated our movement from APP sourced products and that we are no longer placing any orders for any products from APP.

We would be grateful if you would acknowledge this speedy conclusion on your web site to counter the previous comments.

This is a good resolution and the work we have done over the past months to address the concerns that were raised by Nature Alert and internally as part of our Sustainable Development Priorities work.

Best wishes
Jane
Jane Rowe Marketing & Communications Director SPICERS - everything for the office

Abandoned by CITES in Thailand, 2006

Abused and humilated in Safari World, Bangkok.

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.