Wetnose Animal Aid

Borneo Oragutan Survival
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Threats to the baby Orangutan
Why does the Orangutan need our help? Orangutans are one of the most critically endangered of the great apes, due to poaching and habitat loss. Based on the World Bank’s estimation that mechanized logging in the Kalimantan forest, (Indonesian Borneo), will result in its total loss by 2010, and other statistics stating that wild Orangutans are disappearing at a rate of 5,000 Orangutans per year, optimistic predictions give the Orangutan ten more years before extinction in the wild.
Never before has its very existence been threatened so severely. Economic crisis combined with natural disasters and human abuse of the forest is pushing our closest cousins to extinction.

They have lost approximately 80% of their habitat in the last 20 years. We lost approximately 1/3 of the wild population of Orangutans during the fires of ‘97-’98. There are approximately 40,000 to 50,000 Orangutans remaining in Borneo (compared to about 60,000 in 1996) and approximately 4,000 to 6,000 left in Sumatra (compared to about 10,000 in 1996). Wetnose has so far given £1,500 to help save these gorgeous creatures that must be saved and Borneo protected for our children’s future.

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