How can you help the Orangutan?

Answer 1

By stopping the destruction of their habitat and protecting them from poachers and by not buying items that involve orangutans or orangutan's homes.

There is so much more to it than this.

The major reason for destruction of their habitat (which just happens to be the rain forests of Sumatra and Borneo so important to preserve for the whole planet) is the cheap production of palm oil.

The UK is a major user of this product because it is a cheap fat. Yes, it is a fat and not a pleasant one either. It is often disguised in ingredient lists as "vegetable oil" but is is semi-solid at room temperature and it is a saturated fat that will clog human arteries and cause Heart disease.

Why is it used? Because it is cheap. No other reason. It is also being used in the production of Bio-Fuels that purport to be green but are from it.

Check the ingredient lists on your purchases and refuse to buy products containing palm oil or vegetable oil (you'll miss out on a lot of biscuits and pastries but that's a good thing!).

Don't buy Bio-Diesel or Bio-Fuel thinking that you are helping - you are not. Visit the Greenpeace website and join!!!

Why not check out Lois Henderson's review of Gabriella Francine's reader Let's Make a Difference: We Can Help Orangutans at http://goo.gl/pb1qb?

Answer 2

There are many ways to help an orangutan. Three ways to effectively help them is to:

1. Go onto the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) and adopt one. A certificate and plush orangutan will be sent straight to you.

2. Sign a petition aimed at the Bornean or Sumatran governments to be more mindful of the logging that is destroying their habitat's.

3. Refuse to buy or use any products that was used from the wood from the orangutan's natural habitat or any part of an orangutan.

Good Luck!

Don't buy products containing Palm Oil because, a) they will clog your arteries, b) they are the reason the rainforest's of Borneo and Sumatra are being decimated and c) they are they products of the major corporations that are destroying the world and its endangered species for corporate gain and greed.