Nature Alert: March 2011

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

SHAME ON BOSF

WAITING TWO MONTHS TO BE RESCUED BY

THE BORNEO ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL FOUNDATION ...........a few hours down the road.

Space and food plentiful.

Where the orphan orangutan above needs to be and it's only a few hours away. The BOSF Samboja Lestari rescue centre.

Monday, 7 March 2011

WHY WOULD BOSF NOT HELP THIS ORANGUTAN?

Alive but in desperate need of help in January, but the CEO of BOSF refused to rescue this orangutan about three hours from their massive rescue centre with acres of space at Samboja Lestari.

SHAME ON BOSF - AGAIN

One month later - DEAD because Togu Manurung, CEO of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) refused to ask his staff to rescue it.

WAITING FOR TWO MONTHS TO BE RESCUED BY BOSF

How could an orangutan charity turn its back on helping orangutans like this one just three hours away from the BOSF rescue centre in Eastern Kalimantan?

You have every right to be angry and disappointed with BOSF.

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.