The Last Day

Today mark the last day of the BOH Programme: New Hope For Orang Utan 2009.

Special thanks to Husna, Sharifah Amalina, Nadiah, Diyana, Nithya, Thasmini, Amalina, Gaya Low, Soo Theng and Pn. Raja Shahariah for all the support (sorry if I missed out anyone). Also thanks to all St. Marian who have been showing your support and to all those from other schools as well.

We sincerely wished to thank all of you for the effort. No words can express how thankful we are but we greatly appreciate all your help.

In the last few weeks, we have been working pretty hard and holding on tight to our motto Unite To Aware Nation. Since the beginning of the programme, we never thought of winning or losing. What bear in our minds were just little hopes to rescue orangutans, to create as much awareness as we could as students and to hopefully strengthen the bonds between us.

I think the event has been a real success because we seen what we never expect to see. There are indeed a lot of people who loves nature and loves orangutans. We might not be able to make huge differences yet but we succeed in creating some awareness. Nevertheless, bonds between friends, classmates and schoolmates were strengthen.

In a nutshell, I guess we will never be regret to have made this choice to join the programme. However, let’s not let today that mark the last day of the programme mark the last day of our love for orangutans. Let’s continue our little effort like spreading the message of awareness around and reduce the usage of palm oil products.

Signing off,

Suet Yan.

pet?????one of the threat....

As you are reading the title today,i'm sure that you can't believe there are people that will actually buy orang utan as a pet.Well,so do i!Wild orangutan numbers are affected by the illegal pet trade - particularly the baby. For every baby that makes it to the backstreet markets of Bangkok or Taiwan another two have perished.Most infants do not survive the harsh journey to market in Jakarta, Bali or other international locations due to poor care, disease, injury, and psychological trauma. For every orphan that reaches market, it is estimated some 6-8 orangutans died as a consequence of the inhumane means of capture, transport, and care.This seriously sadden me.Human can be too scary and mean sometimes.Though infant orangutans are extremely cute, they make very bad pets. All wild animals quickly outgrow being dependent, cuddly infants and grow into dangerous and unmanageable, very strong adults, completely unsuitable as pets.Easier access to to the orang utan habitat also leads to increased hunting of orangutans for meat, babies, skulls or, more recently for orangutan penises.(eww.seriously!).For orang utans, the situation is further complicated by their comparatively slow reproduction and maturity rate.Reproduction is also affected by the too little food. When food supplies dwindle so too does the orangutan's reproduction rate. As a result their numbers decline possibly becoming too low for the orangutans to survive in the long term!Pause and think what we,human did to them!

credit:www.orangutanrepublik.org,www.orangutan.net,www.orangutans.com.au

the BIGGEST THREATS!

Today we are gonna talk about the threats to the red apes.I know what you are thinking.....most students will tell ."Aiyoh,logging loh.....so much people use sooo much paper ,no tree.....where the orang utans want to swing loh....that's why we have to recycle all the paper loh!But you are not quite right!Logging are one of the threats but not the BIGGEST!Palm oil plantation is supposely the threat that we have to be concern the most!First, orangutan's rainforests habitat are being cleared to make way for the palm plantations for the increased in demand of palm oil by us,HUMAN!And sadly is that Malaysia and Indonesia have become the world's largest producers of palm oil with plantations in Indonesia estimated to cover over 5 million in 2005. The increase in demand for the product is being driven by not only the food and cosmetic industry but more recently its usage as a biofuel.Estimates show that if something isn't done soon to stop the spread of oil palm plantations into the forests, orangutans will be extinct within ten years.Do we really want that to happen?.I am definitely don't want that to happen so here is some things that YOU can do!First,please check the ingredients,if it contains palm oil put it back.click here if you wanna know the list of palm oil free products.(say YAY to CADBURY!mmmm...i want to eat chocolate now!)

You can write letters to the government or the manufacturer or the retailers to demand change,there is a sample letter if you click here.and.. you can also put your fingertips in handy by participating Melbourne Zoo's "Don't Palm Us Off" campaign and add your name to the list of those asking for change in labelling requirements ,you can click here .You can also use this(palm oil) or this(biofuels) petition to initiate change in standards to require compulsory labelling of palm oil and cease imports of palm oil based biofuels.And lastly,i am sure you can do this;inform your friends and family about the issue!.bye everyone and selamat bersahur!

THINK AND ACT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

credit:www.orangutanrepublik.org,www.orangutans.com.au

my apologise....

i know...i know ...i suppose to do post this yesterday but my internet was down the whole day.I'm really really sorry!Ok,now we gonna straight to the report.Unfortunately for this activity i don't have the picture of the event because the camera was M.I.A.So,i'll make it up to y'all with lots of cute pictures from the the video.The video is about a rehabilitation center for the red apes in Bukit Merah.We borrow this cd fom Pn.Raja Shahariah,our biology teacher(love her!)

Title:ORANG UTAN ISLAND A JOURNEY OF SURVIVAL

please ignore the sight of my keyboard..

The specialists there do scientific research in breeding,monitoring,training, nad rehabilitation program to increase the population of healthy orang utan species and to progressively introduce them once again to the natural rainforest habitat.There are also developement unit for ten months to one and a half years old red apes consists of unit 1 = climbing , unit 2= water source , unit 3= foraging area , unit 4 = nest building skills , unit 5= swinging.That is some of the content of the 18 minutes video.BTW,i totally forgot to wish all the Muslims Happy Fasting!My first day of fasting was easy and i hope it will be like that for the entire month(thinking about delicious food while you know that you cannot even taste it is a type of suffering..)Enough of that,now this is the pictures that i promised you ;)

this is a male red ape
a female one!
male+female=a happy family!
the orang utan is given milk by the specialists

the lady is teaching and helping the red ape in nest building

in intensive care by the specilaists

awww,soo cutee!
the injured orang utan is treated!
the red ape in a cradle!soo cutee!
time for some medicine!

New report new activity!!

Gosh!can't my title be any lamer...i seriously don't have any idea!BTW,yes, i am going to do a report on our activities for the past two weeks.I know it has been a looong time since our last post but i can't get my hand on our picture that we took while doing the activity.The camera was with my dear friend,Amalina that kept forgetting to give it to me.Enough of my babbling,now we are gonna talk about the activity.We made badges so everyone can wear it and show support to the campaign.

We give it free to people and we also asked for donations so we can make improvised our campaign such as more badges,fliers for people.Everyone is so generous and supportive!We totally loved them!I want to say thank you to our super nice volunteers nadiah,sharifah amalina,nithya,thasmini for your support and thanks to amalina(different people,not sharifah amalina) that is so kind to lend your Cybershot to us so we can have crystal clear pictures in our blog even though sometimes you give me headache with your forgetfullness.But BIG THANKS to our supporter out there that always look out for our activities and join them.WE LOVE YOU!haha!I'm gonna make it short here so tomorrow i'm gonna talk about the second activity;video watching for students.please look out for it tomorrow!good night everybody!;)

on the right is our full of ideas volunteer,sharifah amalina that help us a lot!;)

this is some of our lovely not to mention cute supporters! ;)

In mission to unite to aware nation,

Nor Faizaah!

Think

There are so many trees now
Why can’t the orangutan swing itself?
From tree to tree
From branches to branches
Must it stay in one?
Oh, I know why
Because of the human beings down there
Holding the axe
Guess you know what they do
But I think you have to think twice
Think beyond
Think out of the box
They are actually models
Posing with the axe
For advertisement
Since then why can’t people understand?
And let the orangutan swing
Let it feel, let it see, let it learn
Is it because there is another human being?
Holding a saw this time?
Don’t forget
Think twice; think beyond; think out of the box

By: Ching Soo Theng (ex-st.marian)

Signing off,
Suet Yan

Report on the 'SURPRISE"

I'm still sleepy while i'm typing the words in my mind right now.i just hope tomorrow will be a holiday for me so i can sleep all day long!well,enough of the mumbling i'm gonna do a report for today activity that we did during recess time and assembly.We request Miss Goh Hai Bee,our beloved principal to sign the banner that we did!

And then,during recess we did the hand printing activity so the students can show support to the campaign.BTW,thanks for the compliment for our banner.I know the orang utan is cute ;)


.We absolutely loved your support and respond to us!Thanks so much and please keep it up,girls!I'm gonna post some of the pictures so please look out if you're in the picture ;)




!and we are going to do some movie-watching activity so please be alert to the announcement and we hope that more people will be volunteering with us for this campaign.Anyone interested please see us,ok?that's it for now,guys!million claps for y'all!