OBJECTIVE

*To allow peers/community to contribute in the orang-utan conservation efforts.

Orangutans...who?

The Malay word orangutan means "person of the forest". These long haired, orangish primates are found only in Sumatera and Borneo, are highly intelligent nd are close relatives of humans.

They are highly intelligent mammals - they share alomst 97% of the human DNA.


Extinction They Face.

Orang-utans in Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak occur mainly in the lowlands. In Sarawak, there are about 1,300 orang-utans, almost all in the Lanjak-Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary and Batang Ai National Park in the south next to West Kalimantan, Indonesia. In Sabah, there were five main areas of special importance with a total of 20,000 orang-utans in the mid 1980s (by WWF-Malaysia working with the Sabah Forestry Depratment, 1986)

By 2004, the orang-utan population in Sabah had dropped to about 11,000 individuals (by Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Project working with Sabah Wildlife Deparment, 2003). This decline in their numbers in the last twenty years was caused by planned conversion of forests to plantations in the eastern lowlands.

Monday, August 10, 2009

The One After The First

A talk on deforestation - one of the cause of orangutans EXTINCTION.

Hello Reader,

Date : 9th August 2009
Venue : Annexe Gallery, Central Market ( yep, we went all the way there! *smiles*)
Event : Talk on Deforestation by Albert Goetzl.
Time : 3pm - 5pm



Yesterday, the three of us, Diyana, Cherlyn and Afie attended a talk on deforestation and climate change by Alberto Goetzl. We went all the way from Subang Jaya to Central Market by train. It was a fun journey though. Only that one of us *ehem ehem* (names are not to be stated) didnt actually know how to get there by train from Kelana Jaya. All the while he/she kept asking questions like, "are we stopping at kl sentral or what?" and "do we need to switch train?" I, on the other hand, had a good time laughing at him/her.

Anyway, the purpose of us, attending this talk is to know more about deforestation, illegal logging and climate change, which is also the cause of orangutan's extinction. They lose their habitat. Just imagine if we, humans, have no house, shelter or food. We cant live, can we? The same thing is happening to them now. But have you ever wonder, WHY does this happen? Are HUMAN the ones to be blame? Bak kata Nabil, "lu pikirlah sendiri" (:

I think, it is very important for each of us to know and find out, how exactly the orangutans extinct so quickly and drastically. From the statistics, I found out that almost 20% of orangutans lost their habitat because of THIS, deforestation.

So wht if we try something new? Would creating a community, a movement of people, a louder voice to save the orangutan and attack on its causes of extinction, is a good plan ?
What do you think ? :) Do give your opinion on this.

p/s: more pictures coming up.

With love,
Diyana Husnin
xoxo

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