Nature Alert: December 2010

Saturday, 4 December 2010

Bruised, tied up and caged: The desperate plight of starving orangutans forced ......

Bruised, tied up and caged: The desperate plight of starving orangutans forced .................

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335367/Starving-orangutans-forced-villages-look-food-rainforest-destroyed.html

BOSF in the limelight- again

Subject: FW: Video - The Sydney Morning Herald:

BOSF top management in Australia - not Indonesia or Thailand.

Be patient with the advertisements and then watch how BOSF have sent their top two people to Australia. Well, why would only one go when money seemingly is no barrier to expenditure?

Why the top two people who control the funds, and not a scientist or someone involved with rehab?

Makes you wonder does it not? I also wonder if anyone connected with BOSF is currently lapping up the sunshine and tequilas at that conference in Mexico? We did ask, but have yet to receive an answer. Hmmnn.

These two officials will be experiencing a much better weekend than the 12 orangutans BOSF abandoned in Thailand.

Subject: Video - - The Sydney Morning Herald

http://media.smh.com.au/?from=hpstrip&sy=smh&source=smh.com.au%2F

Keep in mind, BOSF have yet to tell us who sponsored their 4 day conference at that luxury hotel on the coast.

We are left to wonder if it might have been a palm oil company, a coal mining company, or ?
They have also not revealed their financial accounts. Why would a charity not do this?

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.