“Nothing can prepare one for the sight of the systematic extermination of orangutans by the government of Indonesia.
Look at the photos and news articles on these pages http://naturealert.blogspot.com/ in the context of a statement the President made to the media on 10th December 2007.
In the last 35 years about 50,000 orangutans are estimated to have been lost as their habitats shrank. If this continues, this majestic creature will likely face extinction by 2050,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the launch of an orangutan conservation plan at the climate talks in Bali.
The fate of the orangutan is a subject that goes to the heart of sustainable forests … to save the orangutan we have to save the forest.”
Statements like these are most welcome, but unless backed up by action, such words fall on deaf ears within the Ministry of Forestry…. who are busy granting licences to cut down the very forests the President says they should protect!”
Nature Alert 25-8-2008
