The Orangutan Land Trust objective is to provide permanent solutions for the long-term survival of the orangutan in the wild by ensuring safe areas of land for their continued existence.
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What the Trust Will Endeavour to Support*:
* Protecting existing orangutan habitat, especially that which contains significant populations of orangutans
* Forest rangers/anti-logging operations
* Supporting alternative livelihoods and sustainable harvesting of forests (timber and non-timber forest products) in exchange for their protection in cooperation with local communities, eg. Rattan Project.
* Exploring options for REDD/ Carbon Funding programmes in order to protect orangutan habitat
* Purchasing orangutan habitat by outbidding palm oil companies and logging companies
* Fire fighting efforts in orangutan habitat
* Reforestation and regeneration activities
* Working with palm oil companies to set aside more than the required conservation areas and to develop buffer zones
* Creating wildlife corridors
* Finding, surveying and securing permanent release sites for both wild and rehabilitated orangutans, including taking measures to protect those sites indefinitely
* Finding, surveying and securing river islands for the penultimate step in the rehabilitation process of orangutans, and taking measures to protect those sites indefinitely
* Finding, surveying and securing river islands to serve as permanent sanctuary for rescued and rehabilitated orangutans not suitable for total release into the wild, such as those with chronic disease or disabilities, and taking measures to protect those sites indefinitely.
* Finding, surveying and securing new forest sites for the use of orangutans undergoing the rehabilitation process.
* Providing infrastructure for above sites, such as security posts, feeding platforms, fencing, etc.
* Education, outreach and empowerment in communities living in orangutan habitat areas to avoid the selling off of forest for conversion to palm oil
* Lobbying local and national authorities to protect orangutan habitat
A Message from Lone Droscher-Nielsen “Securing safe forest habitat is the single-most important thing we can do to save the orangutan from extinction.” -Lone Droscher-Nielsen, President of Orangutan Land Trust
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About Karen Maskall
What a wonderful initiative to help these organizations. I sincerely wish everybody well. The Orangutan Land Trust does marvellous work. Those poor orangutans need their forests saving before its too late so I hopemany businesses come this way to help with thier advertising. I saw your share prgram as you call it. its absolutely fantastic. Need to get my thinking cap on and get a small business going don’t I?
Yes fabulous org. And we can do lots to help the orangutans. Just visit their site to find out more and dont forget to mention to any ethical businesses that you know about how they help them here on P4C (whilst helping themselves too!) :-)
Sounds like an excellent organization. We also need to keep up pressure on food producers (including the Girl Scouts!) to buy palm oil only from responsible sources.
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