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Julia draws attention to the plight of our endangered friends

Adopt an infant orangutan and help save this magnificent species

Feel like following the red-head revolution? Why not add a new member to your family? Get involved by inviting a critically endangered, cuddly member into your family by adopting an infant orangutan through the Australian Orangutan Project (AOP). Share the joy with your entire family and help to bring awareness to the plight of this species in trouble.

Did you know that orangutans are great apes, as opposed to monkeys, and are closely related to humans, having 97% of DNA in common? For the small sum of just $55 a year, families and individuals can adopt an orangutan and make a real difference to this unique and special species.

14 year old Daniel Clarke, Australian Orangutan Project’s ‘Children’s Ambassador’ calls on all Australians to help save the endangered species. “There are so many orphan orangutans that need our help now. Palm Oil plantations and forest clearing are rapidly destroying remaining habitat and soon there will be too little forest for rehabilitated orangutans to return to. It is my goal this year as Children’s Ambassador is to help raise $100,000 toward the protection of the orangutans.”

Only one out of six orangutan orphans are lucky enough to be rescued from the sides of roads or confiscated from families keeping them as illegal pets, with nearly 1500 orphaned orangutans living in rescue and rehabilitation centres throughout Indonesia and Malaysia.

“Adoption is an opportunity to make a real difference to orangutans’ lives by improving their survival chances, offering them a safe, secure and stable future and habitat. From what our adoptive families tell us it is an enormously rewarding experience for them too,” says Leif Cocks, President and Founder of the Australian Orangutan Project.

The Australian Orangutan Project is a not-for-profit organisation, supporting orangutan conservation, rainforest protection and reintroduction of orphans in order to save the species from extinction. Australian Orangutan Project collaborates with several orangutan conservation projects, as well as providing habitat protection through its own Safeguard project – guard patrols that deter wildlife poaching, illegal logging and land clearing in Borneo and Sumatra.

Further information, adoption details and gift ideas can be found at the Australian Orangutan Project’s website, www.orangutan.org.au

For further information, or to arrange an interview with AOP please contact:

Affinity Marketing Ph: 02 8006 5035 Brianna Power
0403 904 912 / brianna@affinitymarketing.com.au