The below text and pictures are sourced from the WSPA ‘Go Bananas’ website. Check it out!!
With 90% of their natural habitat gone, orangutans now face a terrifying future. Starving and forced into daily contact with humans, they are often subject to machete attacks which leave the adult apes dead and their orphaned babies traumatised and injured. Sadder still, these orphans are then subjected to the cruelty of being sold into the illegal pet trade.
That's why this year for WSPA World Animal Week (4-10 October) we'd like everyone to join us and GO BANANAS for ORANGUTANS: an event to raise money for the Nyaru Menteng Sanctuary in Indonesia, home to over 650 of these injured and orphaned orangutans.
GO BANANAS for ORANGUTANS gives you the chance to show your support for these beautiful creatures - and help keep them safe - by going a little bananas yourself.
Here are just some of the ways you can take part:
GO BANANAS - Get sponsored to do something crazy, take part in an event or make something to sell.
BUY A WILD GIFT - Give something truly special, like anti-malarial medication for an orphaned orangutan.
WEAR WSPA MERCHANDISE - Buy a specially designed WSPA GO BANANAS T-shirt.
DROP A BANANA SKIN - Dare someone you know to do something crazy.
Whichever way you decide to get involved, your efforts will help create a safer and better world for animals.
All donations will help to care for the welfare of animals around the world, including the rescue, care, rehabilitation and eventual release of orphaned orangutans at the Sanctuary.
Visit www.gobananas.org.au if you are in Australia or www.gobananas.org.nz if you are in New Zealand today and decide how you will Go Bananas for World Animal Week.
On behalf of the orangutans, thank you.
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