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  Orangutans are critically endangered in the wild because of rapid deforestation and the expansion of palm oil plantations.

  If nothing is done to protect orangutans, they could be extinct in just a few years.

  Visit the Orangutan Outreach website to learn how YOU can make a difference!

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  Reach out and save the orangutans!
  Adopt an orangutan today!
  Say "NO" to palm oil!

  On Palm oil, healthy rainforests, and your kitchen posted 3 months ago 20 Responses

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  Help save Orangutans before it's too late

  The palm oil industry is guilty of the most heinous ecological atrocities, and one of the biggest victims is the orangutan. The forests of Borneo and Sumatra are the only place where these gentle, intelligent creatures live. As Hardi Baktiantoro of the Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP) has pointed out, the cultivation of palm oil has directly led to the brutal deaths of thousands of individuals as the industry has expanded into previously undisturbed areas of rainforest.

  When the forest is cleared, adult orangutans are shot on sight. These peaceful, sentient beings are beaten, burned, mutilated, tortured and often eaten. Babies are torn off their dying mothers so they can be sold on the black market as illegal pets to wealthy families who see them as status symbols of their own power and prestige. Please understand that I am not trying to be overly dramatic. This actually happens. It has been documented time and again.

  Some of the luckier orangutans are confiscated and brought to sanctuaries such as the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue Center, which is now home to nearly 700 orphaned and displaced orangutans in Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Many of these orangutans are only several weeks old when they arrive, and all of them are psychologically traumatized and desperate for their mothers-- who are no longer alive.

  Nyaru Menteng is managed by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and run by a remarkable woman named Lone Droscher Nielsen. It is featured on Animal Planet's series 'Orangutan Island'.

  To learn more about the crisis facing wild orangutans because of palm oil and see how you can help protect them, please visit the Orangutan Outreach website.

  Thank you for taking the time to read my long comment!

  Best wishes,

  Richard Zimmerman
  Director, Orangutan Outreach
  http://redapes.org
  Reach out and save the orangutans!
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  palm oil and orangutans

  Thanks so much for bringing attention to the devastating effect palm oil is having on orangutans.
  To learn more about how you and your readers can help save them, please visit the Orangutan Outreach website:  http://redapes.org

  Keep up the great work!

  Richard Zimmerman
  Director, Orangutan Outreach
  Reach out and save the orangutans!
  

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