Orangutans in danger of being wiped out by palm oil industry - Video

To be honest apathy seems to be the general response to this problem. l recently had an Orang-utan Awareness Day here in Picton N.S.W. and after been advertised and promoted over a large area hardly anyone turned up. Left out of pocket at least $2,000 l only raised $1,600 towards the rescue and rehabilitation of these animals. So if anyone has any ideas to what could help these poor bastards please let me know because lndonesia and Australia along with so many "animal groups" do not seem overly concerned about what is happening due to de-forestation in lndonesia and Papua. For Gods sake how bad do things have to get before it dawns on this so called "intelligent species" (the humans) and l use the word loosely as to what is happening so that we all so we can have chocolates, shampoo and other luxeries and at what cost to the enviroment? Remember, "No lungs = No Life.

Further to the requests for ways in which to assist with the terrible plight of the orangutans: the Sumatran Orangutan Society (see http://www.orangutans-sos.org for more details)are a conservation charity. We are currently based in several countries, although our NZ branch is technically dormant until January, when I will be returning and taking over the reigns. We will be looking for people to help out with fundraising as well as membership, and our funds raised go towards rehabilitation of orangutans, coupled with fighting palm oil & educating Indonesians away from damaging activities. We work in conjunction with other orangutan conservation groups, we can no longer afford to stand alone on these issues, so helping one group will help the species, and other animals. Choose carefully- ask your retailers where they get their palm oil from, write letters, raise money. Please, do what you can.

As you introduced the orangutan item you said we would be told what we could do to help their plight - but no such advice was included in the clip. Can you please remedy this? Thank you.