Critical Orangutan Habitat -
What your Donation can Achieve
Plant A Rainforest Indonesia
Through our Plant A Rainforest Indonesia Project, our partner organisation will plant trees on your behalf and restore degraded habitat critical to the survival of the orangutan.
Rainforest Rescue is working with The Sumatran Orangutan Society - Orangutan Information Centre (SOS-OIC), based in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Together, we are helping to conserve the Sumatran Orangutan and its habitat by supporting communities to rehabilitate illegally cleared rainforest within Sumatra' Gunung Leuser National Park.
The Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) has been working in Indonesia for many years to both educate about the importance of conservation and to help reverse the damage of deforestation. By creating tree nurseries, SOS provides sustainable livelihoods for communities surrounding critical Orangutan habitat. Communities therefore no longer need to rely on collecting wood and other forest products for an income. SOS has planted over 350,000 tree seedlings, and provides training so that communities can be self-sufficient in producing their own seedlings for future replanting.
The Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) is dedicated to the conservation of Sumatran orangutans and their forest home. Its international branches raise awareness of the threats facing wild orangutans, and raise funds to support its grassroots conservation projects in Sumatra. Together with a team of committed Indonesian conservationists, it works with local communities living alongside orangutan habitat. It visits schools, plants trees and provides training to help the local people work towards a more sustainable future for their forests. Since 2003, SOS has planted over 350,000 trees.
Save A Rainforest Indonesia
Through our Orangutan Habitat for Survival Project, your donation will go towards protecting orangutan habitat in Sumatra’s Bukit Tigapuluh National Park by preventing illegal logging and clearing.
Rainforest Rescue's Orangutan 'Habitat for Survival' Project is undertaken in association with the Australian Orangutan Project. It provides funding to support Wildlife Protection Units (WPU) in Buki Tigapuluh National Park in Sumatra.These units are having tremendous success in deterring illegal logging, poaching and other wildlife crimes. Nowadays, they also undertake important monitoring projects that enable conservationists and others to plan how best to protect the fragile environment for the future.
Each WPU consists of one NGO Patrol Leader (usually a forestry or nature conservation specialist), a Forest Police Officer and 2 staff recruited from the local communities. This rather unlikely partnership between the Indonesian Government, NGO and the local community has proven to be the most effective means of wildlife and habitat protection. It really works!
It also provides local men with alternative employment to the palm oil plantations – which of course is usually the major reason why the rainforest is cleared in the first place.
The units are an effective and cost efficient deterrent. But they do require regular training and rehearsals to increase their skills and performance and they require equipment and vehicles to help them in their work. Each unit of four men and equipment costs approximately $A25,000 p.a. to run. It isn’t a lot in Australian terms to do such an important job but, nevertheless, the money still has to be raised – which is why the program is so important.
Plant A Rainforest Indonesia Project Key Project Aims:
- To help reverse the damage of deforestation.
- Provides sustainable livelihoods for communities surrounding critical orangutan habitat.
Raise awareness of the threats facing wild orangutans. - Help the local people work towards a more sustainable future for their forests.
To donate to this project, click here.
Orangutan Habitat for Survival Project Key Project Aims:
- Patrol the boundaries of National Parks to prevent illegal clearing and logging.
- Contain and extinguish fires that destroy habitat.
- Conduct community meetings and education.
To donate to this project, click here.
