Once being touched by the magic of the Sumatran Jungle and the intimate exposure to orangutans in the wild, my life has changed forever.
Trekking through the dense, thick, lush all pervading organic breathing Jungle... I am made very aware of my smallness amidst this haven that was created for its 8,500 species of animal and plant life. Not for me; the "invading human" wanting to catch a glance of what the Jungle has to offer. 
The yin and yang is that ecotourism supports the locals and will put an end HOPEFULLY to illegal logging in National Parks, Is this my pie in the sky dream?? Yes it is!
Reality reared its ugly head when we visited the Palm oil village on the last day of our tour and met with a school in the village.
The education programs Rainforest Rescue fund, go into these schools; teaching the babies that the rainforest and orangutans are a good thing.. necessary and natural. These children have been brain washed by growing up around palm oil tree plantations, watching their parents remain poor, struggling and buying their own water!!!!! We try to educate them to the harsh reality that Palm oil trees deplete the soil COMPELETELY...
The silver lining to this story is the replanting program. Rainforest rescue have poisoned 500 ha of illegally logged forest, replacing this area with fast growing natives. 6 to 8 orangutans have been spotted returning to the area. A MIARCLE! We need to nurture, save and protect this land. Keeping orangutans in sanctuaries and creating dependent orangutans is not the answer. We need land to release these beautiful intelligent loving creatures into... there is not much land left.
Rainforest rescue are doing Amazing work so please consider donating to the cause.
75c a day will pay to have a local fed and a tree planted.
75c a day will pay to have a local fed and a tree planted.
Hati senang
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With Love
Tracey
I feel that even if most people knew eating, washing, wearing, cooking with Palm Oil was the no.1 problem destroying Borneo and creating worse climate change thru carbon emissions - the general public would still use Palm Oil. We have to ban Palm Oil like when the Anti-Nuclear protests were going on and New Zealand became a Nuclear Free country we need to be a Palm Oil free world - it's the only way to be sure. There may be a huge economic war due to banning the farming of Palm Oil but if we don't we will most certainly be sealing the fate of our future! We will self- destruct!
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