Pay For A Day
WILL YOU HELP US PAY FOR A DAY?
This week - Budi needs YOU, Gito needs YOU, Joss needs YOU, the entire orangutan rescue project needs YOU! We need your help to in raising £4000 each day from Monday to Friday to fund the orangutan rescue project.
It is due to the incredible lifesaving work of IAR Indonesia and the BKSDA, made possible by your generous donations, which gives hope to this fragile species. We will be looking to cover the costs of the entire orangutan rescue project on a day-to-day basis - which comes to £4000 per day. This will not only pay for rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing Critically Endangered orangutans, but also the protection of their precious habitats and the education of local communities.
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Day One - Rescues
IAR Indonesia and the BKSDA are on the frontline of orangutan rescue. With your support, the rescue team can be ready with little notice, and quickly respond to reports of stranded or captive orangutans in desperate need of rescue.
It can take many days of travelling by foot, vehicle, and boat to reach the more remote areas of rainforest! This long, costly, and sometimes difficult process is made possible entirely by our donors. They are behind every drop of fuel and every single step needed to allow an orangutan the chance of a new life. Your generosity will allow the rescue teams to continue these lifesaving rescue missions and bring hope to Critically Endangered orangutans in desperate need!
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Day Two - Landscape Conservation
Sadly, as forest fires continue to run riot, orangutan habitats are disappearing at an alarming rate. As a result of this destruction, many orangutans starve to death or perish when they come into contact with human beings. Great strides by the IAR Indonesia team and the BKSDA have been made to protect this Critically Endangered species, but it all relies on your generous donations!
This involves working to protect forest, encouraging sustainable farming, reforesting areas lost in fires and creating tree corridors that allow orangutans to move freely and safely between protected areas. In fact, since 2016, we have planted over 65,000 seedlings! To keep up the amazing work conducted by these lifesaving heroes, we are calling on your generosity yet again. So please help us reach our target and help Pay For A Day!
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Day Three - Education
It is vital that all conservation programs are carried out in conjunction with educational activities. We provide information on the legality of people keeping orangutans as pets and provide information on orangutan conservation; we always strive to talk to the local community about the work we’re doing and how it affects them too.
For the first time, IAR Indonesia in collaboration with the Melawi Regency Education and Culture Office help a computer training programme in two villages in the Menukung District. The programme is integrated with teaching and learning activities in schools and this programme aims to divert young people from activities that are destructive to nature, such as illegally seeking forest wood and hunting protected animals. The team also provide 10 laptops and a set of generators, providing training on the use of Microsoft Office and helping children and adolescents develop their knowledge in the field of computers, so they can compete for jobs in the future.
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Day Four - Rehabilitation
When orangutans are rescued by IAR Indonesia and the BKSDA, they are taken to our rescue and rehabilitation centre in West Borneo, where they receive lifesaving treatment and care from an expert team of vets and keepers. Every animal is different and requires individual attention to ensure they can recover both mentally and physically from whatever pain and trauma they have experienced.
The orphaned orangutans are put into different ‘schools’ depending on their age and ability. They are taught skills such as climbing, foraging and nest building, all things that they should have learned from their mothers in the wild. We are currently caring for more than 100 rescued orangutans, each of which have heart breaking stories and require round-the-clock care and love to recover from their past and learn what it means to be an orangutan once more. But, this isn’t cheap. This is why we need YOU to help us care for these magnificent, innocent creatures.
Day Five - Release and Monitoring
Releasing an orangutan may seem like an easy task but the reality is it’s a carefully planned process which can be months in the making. Each release involves extensive site suitability studies to find an appropriate release site, vital education and outreach work in local communities, obtaining permits, lengthy journeys by car, boat, foot and then at the very end – a release. All this - on top of the costs of staff, equipment, food, drink and veterinary supplies - makes the most important part of our work also the most expensive.
Even once an orangutan has been released our job isn’t complete! Each released orangutan will go through a period of post-release monitoring which can last up to two years. The team in the field will follow the orangutan 24/7, taking extensive notes on how the orangutan is coping in the wild, what they’re eating, how they interact with wild population orangutans and many more. If at any time they feel the orangutan isn’t adjusting well to life in the wild, it will be brought back into the centre to undergo further rehabilitation.
