Aug 6, 2012
Pledge NOW to support WTVI!
Deep in the Borneo rainforest, a dedicated team of vets and care-givers have a massive and emotional task ahead of them: to rescue and nurse back to health the jungle’s most appealing – and most vulnerable – animals.
There are currently 600 (approx.) vulnerable orangutans being cared for, day and night, at the Borneo Orangutan Foundation. Most have had traumatic lives, clinging to survival as rainforests are burned around them, or snatched from the wild to be sold as pets. For the team of vets and care-givers, every day is a challenge – not only nursing the orphans, but also dealing with the everyday human crises of life in a rainforest hospital.
The Orangutan is clearly experiencing a raw deal at the hands of men working for the corporates around the world. Global operations that supply a multitude of foodstuffs into other corporate supermarkets supplying the worlds mass market.It is cheap it ensures long shelf life so it feeds into the connivance of the corporates but it doesn’t come of course without costs and those costs are to the lungs of our planet and to the indigenous peoples both animal and human who live in those forests.They are torn down to replant that spreads its influence over wide areas of Malaysia and Indonesia habitat of course of the great red apes.
the problem is exists that the public are the market place for corporate exploitation,and all the global food manufacturers are using the stuff and so the masses are buying the products its contained in and so promoting ignorantly perhaps the continuance of rainforest destruction
We as consumers must source our foods from those places that do not do this, which puts the emphasis back on us to source from whole food shops from organic stores and to check very carefully the labels on products to ensure that if palm oil is used its from sustainable sources or has organic status.
It has to be a 2 pronged attack, signing petitions and writing on face book is not enough