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 Thursday March 05, 2009 03:35 by Francesca - Orangutan Fran info at orangutanfran dot org
 Borneo Trek ISPCA 2010 20 year-old, Dublin born adventure instructor Francesca Loughran talks about her plans to trek to the highest point in Asia, Mount Kinabalu, to raise funds for the ISPCA. The focus of this Trek is to aide the Orangutans of Borneo who are now an endangered species due to Biofuel's adverse effects on the environment. I have decided to take part in the ISPCA challenge of raising €5,000 to help save the Orangutans of Borneo rain forest, Indonesia, from extinction. By participating in the ISPCA Borneo Challenge, you will not only be helping cruelly treated and neglected animals in Ireland. You will also be helping to support the indigenous habitat, people and animals of North East Asia by engaging in green eco tourism. These beautiful creatures are predicted to have just 10 years left of survival. I am doing this by taking part in trekking the highest peak of south east Asia at 4,101 meters, Mount Kinabalu. This will require a serious amount of training to take on such a challenge. The trek begins on the 5th of July 2010 until the 18th of July. (To find out more about the trek, visit the official ISPCA website.) In order to do this I need your help to raise €5,000. I will be putting my own contributions from the money I earn on a regular basis. I will also be organizing a few events to raise money which I will announce on my blog. I will also keep my blog up to date on my day to day progression trying to raise the money. If we're successful I’ll be able to write about my experiences in Borneo and post pictures. If we don’t manage to reach the target, we still will have helped greatly an animal in serious danger of extinction. I just signed myself up to participate in the Flora mini marathon to raise money to donate towards the ISPCA fund for Orangutans. This marathon is going to be physically demanding, so I'm getting trainging straight away! If you would like to sponsor me you can do so on my website. Every donation makes a difference. Even if you can only give a little, the smallest donations wil be greatly appreciated! The marathon starts on the first of june 2009. Find out more about it on the Flora mini marathon website. Your thoughts and input are important to me, so please let me know what you think. 
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Jump To Comment: 1 2Ken Allen would make his first successful escape on June 13, 1985. Keepers found him mingling among visitors outside of his exhibit. After he was placed into isolation, officials set to work trying to figure out exactly how he did it. A few years previous, Ken had constructed a ladder out of some fallen branches. “He was very methodical about it,” one employee noted. “He would carefully put the foot of the ladder on the ground, and pound it with his hand to be sure it was solid, and then he would climb to the top of the wall and climb back down.” But there was no ladder to be seen this time. So that was ruled out. It might have been human error: a door left ajar or something. But that did not appear to be the case either. The zoo was definitely stumped. Nonetheless, it was not going take any chances. Cinder-blocks were stacked to raise the height of the retaining wall, and several portions were smoothed over to prevent any handholds. These alterations, the zoo anticipated, would do the trick. They didn't . . . .
This is but one of the many, many reasons I hate my fellow human beings
The Orang Utan is the worlds most endangered Ape living in the worlds most endangered rainforest. Since the Western backed dictator Suharto came to power in the late 60's Indonesia rainforest's, some of the richest in terms of biodiversity have been handed over to mainly foreign multinationals who have engaged in an ongoing orgy of rape, destruction and rampant exploitation of these natural wonders.
WIthin the last 15 years palm-oil production has taken over from the timber trade as the No.1 agent of mass rainforest clearing. The figures are startling, in the last decade alone Sumatra has lost over 50% of its fast shrinking lowland rainforest , threatening not just orang-utans but a whole host of spectacular enigmatic species such as the Sumatran Tiger, Sumatran Rhino and a unique type of forest elephant. Not mention the countless other species of plants, animals, birds etc. that are being driven over the edge, many not even having been documented and recorded by scientists.Indigenious people too are suffering as these muliti-national companies show as little respect for there lives and livelyhoods as they do for the forest they bulldoze. The Island of Borneo once described as a "garden of eden" is similarily being hammered.
The Palm Oil trade threatens to be the final nail in the coffin for this regions unique habitats. Driven by the cynical lie that biofuels such palm oil are the answer to Global warming, they ignore the fact that deforestation in tropical countries is the single biggest contributor to exploding levels of CO2 in the Atmosphere. In Indonesia the peat- forests protect some of the biggest sinks of CO2 in the world. Yet these are the very places these greedy multi-nationals are clearing to grow palm-oil, thereby destroying this store and releasing countless millions of tonnes of green-house gases in the atmosphere. This insanity is also fueled by western demands for everyday products like soap, cakes etc. that contain Palm oil. i wud urge everyone with a conscience to choose alternative products which do not contain Palm oil or which only use sustainable sources. There are plenty of substitutes for Palm oil available such as sunflower oil etc.
Finally i wud urge everyone to get behind Frans fantastic fund raising effort. It certainly restores to some extent my faith in certain elements of humanity to act in ways that are totally selfless and are not a slave to this selfish materialistic hell we've created on this planet that is destroying all forms of life including in many cases our fellow humans. The fact that Fran is so young and Irish is also a light of hope given the typical image many have of young people cultivated during the so called "Celtic Tiger" era.