Orangutan Caring Week

“Pekan Peduli Orang Utan”

November 12-18, 2006 Globally

Orangutan Survival Depends on YOU!!!

We want you to participate in this worldwide event.  Help build a “critical mass of concerned voices” each  November to focus attention on the species through your efforts and those of other supporters.

We would like people to come to understand that the habitat of the orangutan, the tropical rain forest, is vital to not only orangutans but to other wildlife and to all of us on this planet. Rainforests and related ecosystems provide important services from climate moderation, to water quality and erosion control, to storehouses of genetic, species and ecological biodiversity.  Rainforests need to be sustainably managed to maintain these services. We want to inform citizens in our own communities of this connection and continue to enlighten local people in areas near orangutan habitat.

The  Crisis  Continues

The loss of the rainforest in Borneo & Sumatra is staggering. In December 2001, the Indonesian State Ministry of Environment estimated that between 5 million to 6 million acres of rain forest are destroyed each year. Unless extreme action is taken soon, these forests could be gone in less than 10 years, and wild orangutans along with them. Based on recent surveys, biologists believe that only 50,000-60,000 orangutans remain in the wild.

Large-scale illegal logging is occurring at an unabated rate throughout Borneo in national parks like Tanjung Puting, Gunung Palung, and Gunung Leuser and other protected areas. Nearby regions of orangutan habitat are being converted to palm oil plantations that displace the great apes and...

Sadly, if human beings do not significantly alter the course of their behavior regarding the orangutan and the forests they live in, critical biodiversity, consisting of rare endangered fauna, more than 40 species of mammals and 200 species of exotic birds, could soon follow to extinction.

Our mission is therefore one of immediacy and global importance.

WHAT   YOU  CAN  DO

Orangutan Caring Week is a great time to help people and students learn about the wonderful world of orangutans and encourage them to care enough to move to action so that they might be saved.

 

What can you do to show you care? Plenty! Whatever you choose to do make it fun, make it understandable but most of all make sure that it reaches out and motivates people to want to do something about the potential loss of one of our planets most beautiful species: the orangutan.

Suggestions for events and activities

 

 

1. Initiate an information booth/table at a local event or venue

2. Educate with slide shows/videos at local schools, church and civic organizations. Deliver a public lecture

3. Conduct Fund-raising events for an orangutan support organization

4. Promote the benefits of supporting orangutan organizations through active membership

5. Encourage local school involvement by becoming an Orangutan Foster Parent (school classes or individuals) or specific fundraising by classes

6. Promote the Forest Restoration (Tree planting) programs

7. Give yourself, a friend, or a family member a Birthday party and donate the money to a support organization.

8. Put together photo essays/collages - let pictures tell the story/speak for you

9. Write positive letters to influential leaders and tell them you think it is important that orangutans and their habitat be preserved. Conduct local media marketing. Set up a support group to keep the action going

10. Build a website about orangutans

11. Wear the Orang Utan Republik t-shirt and make a statement!

SEE/OUR Education Initiative, 2461 Santa Monica Blvd. #828, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA-info@OrangUtanRepublik.org

OUR Education Initiative is not affiliated with the Orangutan Foundation International nor its co-founder.

OUR Education Initiative is a project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE)

a registered 501(c)(3) public charity

© 2006 Orang Utan Republik Education Initiative

OUR Education Initiative is not a political organization and does not endorse or sponsor activities that attack or condemn individuals, organizations or governments.  OUR Educational Initiative will work together with individuals, governments and nongovernmental organizations that are committed to saving orangutans and their rain forest habitat.

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