RELATED Orangutans Campaign

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You can help stem the further collapse of the already dwindling Orangutan populations by helping to salvage their homes – the rapidly disappearing forests of Indonesia. The primary threat to the Orangutans’ survival is habitat destruction. The major loss, fragmentation and degradation of the forests results from commercial logging operations and the conversion of forests to oil palm and timber plantations for agriculture. However, more often than not, these logging operations are carried out illegally and unsustainably. Illegal logging is rampant in Indonesia, 88% (approximately 50 million m3) of logging is in non-compliance with national laws, resulting in an annual log harvest that is three times greater than the sustainable yield. Governed by a multi-million dollar international trade in illegally sourced timber, illegally logged timber from Indonesia continues to feed the huge demand for cheap timber in consumer markets such as USA, the EU, Japan and China. This trade is unregulated and uncontrolled, and you as the customer have no idea where your timber or wood-products come from or how these products were obtained. There is no legal verification system currently working in any of the producer countries, and there is no legislative framework in place in consuming nations regulating this trade.

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