RAINFOREST ALERT UPDATE: Oil Palm/OrangutanThreat Major Issue

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Dear Friends of the Orangutan,

 

Please, we need everyone's help on this important issue.

 

 

 

Michelle Desilets

 

 

Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK

 

 

 

 

 

PLEASE SEND & FORWARD ORANGUTAN ALERT AGAIN, NEW TARGET

 

 

 

LIST UPDATE: Clearly we are making Indonesian oil palm's threat

 

to rainforests and orangutans a major issue. I have never seen

 

such a massive response to an alert, as our orangutan conservation

 

friends have swelled our ranks. Our tens of thousands of protest

 

emails have caused the Indonesian government to close the Prime

 

Minister's public email account. We are reissuing the alert,

 

addressing it now to the Minister of Agriculture whose

 

department is the prime proponent of the project. We have also

 

added over a dozen new email addresses. Send and forward the

 

alert again, expressing outrage at the wholesale clearance of

 

this pristine rainforest wilderness for plantation agriculture.

 

g.b.

 

 

 

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ACTION ALERT FORWARD WIDELY!

 

 

 

Oil Palm Threatens Indonesia's Rainforests and Orangutans

 

 

 

By Rainforest Portal, project of Ecological Internet, Inc.

 

http://www.rainforestportal.org/

 

February 20, 2006

 

 

 

TAKE ACTION

 

Chinese funded development a ploy to access rainforest timbers,

 

will devastate Borneo's biodiversity and largest remaining wild

 

orangutan population

 

 

 

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=indonesia

 

 

 

Indonesia plans to cut a 2,000 kilometer long, five kilometer

 

wide swathe through one of the world's largest remaining areas

 

of pristine rainforest to create a massive oil palm plantation.

 

The project would destroy nearly two million hectares of ancient

 

rainforest in Kalimantan, traversing almost the entire border

 

with Malaysia, and slicing through three national parks. These

 

remote rainforests on the island of Borneo are home to countless

 

species of rare birds, plants and mammals including the largest

 

remaining wild orangutan population. This Chinese-funded

 

" agricultural development " is almost certainly a thinly veiled

 

ruse to access timber. Indonesia has huge land areas of

 

abandoned, unproductive palm oil plantations and degraded forest

 

areas that would be suitable for oil palm development. Palm oil

 

plantations - which completely clear the rainforests and are

 

biologically depauperate - are the number one enemy of

 

orangutans. Orangutans need vast areas of interconnected forest

 

to survive, and this ill-conceived project would speed up their

 

extinction. The business as usual palm oil trade is expected to

 

cause the extinction of the orangutan within 12 years. Let the

 

Minister of Agriculture know he must cancel the Kalimantan

 

project, and that new oil palm plantations should be built only

 

in previously cleared and unused areas. Note your protest emails

 

are going to a sixteen addresses, so please inform us if some

 

start to bounce (due to closure, etc.). Please take action now

 

at http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=indonesia

 

 

 

 

 

To , send a blank email to join-ecological_internet

 

Or visit here:

http://www.ecoearth.info//

 

 

 

 

Michelle Desilets

BOS UK

www.savetheorangutan.org.uk

www.savetheorangutan.info

" Primates Helping Primates "

 

Please sign our petition to rescue over 100 smuggled orangutans in Thailand:

http://www.thePetitionSite.com/takeaction/822035733

 

 

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