According to Rita Sastrawan, International Communications Coordinator for Borneo Orangutan Survival International, the establishment of new oil-palm plantations is the single biggest threat to Orangutans in Indonesia’s Kalimantan and Sumatra.

Orangutans with respiratory problems and stinging eyes are being rescued from burning forests. Rita reports that the forest are being illegally cleared where Orangutans were known to live byr large companies trying to keep up with the developed world’s enormous appetite for palm oil for food, clothes washing detergents and soaps, provide fuel for cars and to produce electricity. It wasn’t until pressure from NGO’s that the company responsible for a lot of the land clearing admitted that it had violated its own development policies for plantations.

With Indonesia facing one of the highest rates of tropical rainforest deforestation in the world, the situation for the Orangutan’s is dire. We need your support to help stop illegal logging and provide local communities with sustainable alternatives to land clearing and creating more oil-palm plantations.

Rainforest Rescue protects rainforest habitat for the endangered Orangutan, only found on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra (Indonesia). Our Habitat for Survival project protects habitat for the endangered Orangutan in Sumatra’s Bukit Tigapuluh National Park by preventing illegal logging and clearing.

Your support will ensure that staff can be employed to patrol protected areas and local communities can be supported in developing a livelihood that benefits from conservation. Make a dontion to Rainforest Rescue’s Indonesia Habitat for Survival project today.