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Dear Friend of the Forest and Orangutans, OFI has more orphans than ever! Over 350! Would you please adopt Malcolm to help him and the others? Malcolm and the other orphan orangutans THANK YOU!! Palm oil frenzy threatens to wipe out orangutans By ROBIN MCDOWELL, Associated Press Writer Robin Mcdowell, Associated Press Writer Sun Jan 18, 1:52 pm ET A female orangutan named Beki eats bananas at Tanjung Puting National Park on AP - A female orangutan named Beki eats bananas at Tanjung Puting ...
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3 Week Orangutan Foundation International Volunteer Program:

This is an extraordinary opportunity to volunteer for 3 weeks in orangutan habitat and directly contribute to the conservation of orangutans and other wildlife as well as to tropical forest in Borneo.

Our volunteers work in a team of 10 to 12 individuals in the Kalimantan forest (Indonesian Borneo). Teams work primarily on manual construction projects in close collaboration with local OFI staff and personnel. Typical project sites will include OCCQ, Camp Leakey, Park guard posts, and former and prospective orangutan release sites as well as other sites and facilities.

Volunteers will have close interaction and contact with local people and culture, mainly that of the aboriginal Dayaks. Volunteers may have an opportunity to observe orangutans and other wildlife.

If you are 18 or over, physically fit, and have a sincere desire to help orangutans, wildlife, and forest as well as a passion for our work join us!

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Orangutan Foundation International

Dear Friend,

In other letters I have told you that the future for Indonesia’s tropical rain forests, the principal habitat for orangutans, looks bleak. I am writing today to tell you that the future is now; our nightmares are becoming government policy and coming very close to home. Indonesia has just entered the Guinness Book of World Records as having the fastest rate of deforestation in the world.

The government of Kalimantan Tengah (Central Indonesian Borneo), the province where OFI does much of its work, has loudly proclaimed its adherence to “green principles”; simultaneously, it has proposed a Land Use Plan for the next five years that will convert four million hectares (approximately ten million acres) of prime orangutan habitat, tropical rain forest, to palm oil plantations...
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