We're Disappearing

This was done for a fundraiser held in the Los Angeles area to benefit Birute Galdikas' Orangutan Foundation International (Borneo). It sold and was enough to purchase 2.5 acres of habitat for the orangs.

Visit her site and donate to help save these beautiful animals.

Why are they disappearing? Here is a quote from her website:

"The destruction and degradation of the tropical rain forest, particularly the lowland forests, is the main reason orangutans are threatened. This has been caused primarily by human activity (intense permitted logging, illegal logging, conversion to palm oil plantations and farm lands, mining, settlements, road construction) and also by natural phenomena (large-scale fires). Additionally, the illegal animal trade has been a significant factor in the decline the wild orangutan population. Finally, orangutans are occasionally hunted and eaten by some of the indigenous peoples of Borneo as well as immigrant loggers who do not have a dietary prohibition to eating primate bushmeat.