WEDNESDAY June 30, 2010

GUESS WHAT??
Here’s What!!
Today we have an interview by Janie with Pak Sia!  Pak Sia is an employee at the OFI Care Center and Quarantine!
Here we go!

I want to work with orangutans till the day I die

By Janie Dubman, OFI writer and volunteer
At nineteen years old, young Sia defied his father’s wishes [...]

MONDAY June 28, 2010
Hey guys!  Remember our blog about the water bottle home?
The home built of water bottles??
Well we have more on this!
This bottle building initiative (PET Bottle Building) was born in 2001 in Honduras by Andreas Froese of ECO-TEC.  After looking at all the waste and unused recyclable materials he realized this could be [...]

THURSDAY June 24, 2010

GUESS WHAT??
Here’s What!!

Who’s a joinin our 5K run this year??
BEN N JERRY’S!!

GET FREEEEE ICECREAM AT THE….
Save the Orangutans 5K Run For Survival!

This year!
September 26th
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108814999148241&ref=ts

WEDNESDAY June 23, 2010

GUESS WHAT??
Here’s What!!
Mikalah Gordon from AMERICAN IDOL is joining us again this year to sing the National Anthem at our 5K Run Walk Event!!
SEPTEMBER 26
Save the Orangutans 5K Run for Survival
CLICK THIS LINK TO SIGN UP TODAY:
http://www.active.com/running/encino-ca/save-the-orangutans-5k-run-for-survival-and-kiddie-fun-run-2010

We are so glad to have her sing for us again!
Check her out here!
http://www.mikalah-gordon.org/

WHAT ELSE??
HANSEN NATURAL [...]

TUESDAY June 22, 2010
Hot Topic:
Sand dredging destroying habitat in wildlife sanctuary in Borneo

In the Kinabatangan wildlife sanctuary in Sabah state on Borneo island sand-laden barges were moving up and down the river.  Erosion caused by the dredging is sure to effect the proboscis monkey and the pygmy elephant of Borneo.

Most of the sand dredging was [...]

MONDAY June 21, 2010

Summer time has come!!!

So so so!  Here’s some interesting info based of of a study of orangutan’s gestures and signaling.
When orangutans make gestures to each other it means something!  They are trying to get a specific outcome.
Researchers observed 28 orangutans in 3 European zoos for 9 months. They distinguished 64 types of [...]

SUNDAY June 20, 2010

Happy Father’s day folks!!!
And today we have another lovely article from Miss Janie Dubman!!!
Borneo’s lush forests are an illusion: trees grow on deserts
By Janie Dubman, special to mongabay.com
June 14, 2010

The lush green rainforests of Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) grow on a desert. The illusion of organic richness and bounty is nowhere [...]

FRIDAY June 18, 2010

GUESS WHAT??
Here’s What!!
We have news!
Words from the OFI Care Center in Borneo, Indonesia!!!
About our babies!
Two new voices have joined the afternoon chorus in the Nursery. Among the cicada trilling and the laughs of the caretakers preparing the afternoon milk, the high-pitched squeaking of Ajie and Opet can be distinguished.
Ajie, a male between [...]

THURSDAY June 17, 2010

GUESS WHAT??
Here’s What!!
SOUPLANTATION has donated to our RAFFLE!!
What Raffle?

OUR EXTREME RAFFLE?
How extreme?
EXTREME EXTREME!
At the Save the Orangutans 5K Run for Survival
SEPTEMBER 26 2010

Thanks Souplantation!!  Come run and get your raffle tix!!!

Join us!

Sign up on Active
to run the
RUN FOR SURVIVAL

or walk it!

This year we are lucky to have RUNNERGY as one of [...]

WEDNESDAY June 16, 2010

The Indonesian Government will impose a moratorium on the opening up of peatland for palm oil plantations.
On Friday, Agriculture Minister Suswono said: “No further development of palm oil plantations will be allowed on peatland or primary forests.”

He said the government would focus on increasing the productivity of existing [...]