Still haven’t thought of what to get Dad for Fathers Day? Gift Cards from Rainforest Rescue are great last minute gifts that help protect and restore our rainforests.

Rainforest Rescue Gift Cards starting at $25 can be bought online at www.rainforestrescue.org.au or phone 1300 763 611. How about planting a tree for Dad or protecting a bit of the Daintree rainforest in his name?

“Gift Card sales will make a significant contribution to both our Daintree Buy Back and Protect Forever Project and the Plant a Rainforest campaign. This year more Australians are recognising how we need to make a difference when it comes to our environment.” Read the rest of this entry »

In this 3-part series Alice Moffett shares her experiences visiting Rainforest Rescue’s Plant a Rainforest Project, including each location on the Orangutan Adventure Trek’s itinerary.

Rainforest Rescue’s Orangutan Adventure Trek is a once in a lifetime experience you will always remember. In March 2010 you can experience the rainforests of Sumatra while viewing some of Sumatra’s unique and endangered species like the Orangutans and Elephants. Get hands on with local communities, visiting the Indonesian Plant A Rainforest Project and tree planting in cleared rainforest. Take part in a fundraising challenge which covers the trip costs as well as contributing significantly to helping reafforest and protect Orangutan habitat. More information at the end of this blog post.

Day 2&3: Viewing Orangutans in Sumatra
I am lucky enough to see an Orangutan, many in fact, from the Orangutan Feeding/Viewing Platform in Bukit Lawang, North Sumatra. The platform is located on the edge of the Gunung Leuser National Park and provides daily food to the 23 semi-wild Orangutans (some with babies) who have been released here. Orangutans are brought here after being rehabilitated from various harms including living in captivity as pets through the illegal animal trade or as orphans whose mothers have been killed by poachers or forest fires. Many have been subjected to the destructive effects of illegal forest clearing for timber or oil palm plantations, reducing their habitat and food source. Read the rest of this entry »

Please also see the ‘Don’t Palm Us Off Campaign’
at http://www.zoo.org.au/PalmOil

Jennifer Sheridan
August 9, 2009
From the AGE Newspaper.

AS SUMA, one of Melbourne Zoo’s oldest orang-utans, fixes her trusting eyes on a playful toddler from the sanctuary of her enclosure, thousands of kilometres away her relatives in Sumatra and Borneo watch with fear the activities of the humans who come their way.

While Suma and her daughter, Kamil, live in safety, wild orang-utans are under increasing threat of extinction as their native rainforest habitat is razed for palm oil plantations to supply the world’s food and soap product manufacturers. Read the rest of this entry »

Rainforest Rescue CEO Kelvin Davies has made it as a finalist in the news.com green hero award. Can you please vote for him – there is a $3,000 portable laptop at the end of it for Rainforest Rescue if successful.

Go to http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25928982-5019059,00.html then click on Green Hero and vote 1 for Kelvin!

Please spread the word!

Another excerpt from Kaleigh and Jon’s Daintree Experience . . .

While planting in the Daintree, we had the amazing opportunity to check out a few of the local companies that support Rainforest Rescue through regular donations. Both the Daintree Discovery Centre and Daintree Discovery Tours help to turn the overwhelming wonder of the Daintree into an understandable and enjoyable experience.

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