Interview with Willie Smits

Hi,
I just heard a marvellous interview with Willie Smits, founder of BOSF (Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation). He said all of the things that our school groups are founded upon. He also said that there are over a thousand orphaned orangutans in the rescue sanctuaries now, with about 300 raised and released back into the wild over the last few years.
He has written a great sounding book 'Thinkers of the Jungle', which each of us schools ought to try to get for our libraries.
About three hundred tree species will also disappear if the orangutans go extinct - devastation for the environment of Borneo - as the orangutans eating the fruits of these help to disperse and fertilise the seeds.
Orangutans also know which plants to use for medicines to treat themselves, and so have information for us too; they hold some of the keys to the future for all people on earth, they're not just the property of the Indonesians.
More later,
Seeya,
Lynton