Support Wildlife Direct Today – It’s My Birthday

I’m going to repeat this earlier post because today is my actual birthday and I want all y’all to donate to WLD. Attend: I wrote this for the Baraza blog on Wildlife Direct. I’m repeating it here in a shameless effort to garner more donations for Wildlife Direct. I never thought, when I was much [...]

It’s Orangutan Awareness Week

It started yesterday, my apologies for the late post, and ends this Friday with Orange for Orangutan Day! I’m planning to hang flyers on all the various bulletin boards on all 11 floors of our building today. Please read the following information from the Orangutan Foundation and get everyone you know to wear orange on [...]

Land Grab Planned to Help Endangered Orangutans In Borneo

**Update** Thanks to Helena of World Land Trust for her comment and providing a link so you can donate to buy this land: “For anyone interested in contributing to this vital appeal, you can make a donation at http://www.justgiving.com/worldlandtrustborneo” Following on my earlier post about the critical state of wildlife in Malaysia, I found news [...]

Take Action for Orangutans, Wolves Slaughtered, Elephants Face Extinction

There just isn’t any good news of late; at least that’s how it seems. In my previous post about the ABC News special report about orangutans and deforestation, I found some great comments left by visitors. The first comment by Richard Zimmerman, director of Orangutan Outreach, invites us to visit the Web site and learn [...]

ABC News Report: Orangutan Extinction in 10 Years

Thanks to my friend and volunteer colleague, Olivia, for passing this report on to me. ABC News report on orangutans: The Plight of the Red Apes http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5238877 The researchers interviewed include Lone Dröscher Nielsen of Animal Planet’s “Orangutan Island” series and a representative from the World Wildlife Fund. They predict extinction of the species within [...]

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