Having worked alongside some very enthusiastic staff and students in a secondary school in Birdwood, South Australia, I have decided to start my own web blog to continue communications with these wonderful people. The focus of this blog is for students from Birdwood and from Tanfield school here in County Durham in the UK to share their passion for conserving the world's declining environments.
The main focus will be to create a forum to discuss the plight of the Orang-utan. This magnificent ape is partly responsible for maintaining much of the biodiversity of the rainforests in both Borneo and Sumatra. Unfortunately the number of wild Orang-utans living in these two environments is rapidly declining. This is due to several factors. However the main reasons for the WWF placing both sub-species on the critically endangered list have been habitat destruction because of the introduction of palm oil plantations, illegal logging of the rainforest and hunting of Orang-utans for the illegal bush-meat trade.
Please feel free to add more facts to my initial blog and more importantly I would like to know your opinions and suggestions for how we can slow the rate of decline of these wonderful animals.
Thank you for your support.
Richard.
