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Project "560"
The OFI is issuing a call to schoolchildren, classrooms, boys and girls' clubs, and civics groups worldwide to assist it in a massive undertaking designed to keep the world's last remaining orangutans from going extinct...
"Many young people today studying orangutans in school will shortly grow up, and tragically, never get to see these magnificent creatures at play in the wild because they are now being destroyed at unprecedented rates," notes OFI's distinguished founder and president, Dr. Biruté Galdikas. "That's why OFI has decided to take drastic measures to combat this drastic crisis. We're asking young people everywhere to enroll in "Project 560" - because young people have the greatest stake in determining what will be preserved - for themselves, their children, and for posterity. The illegal loggers and miners now plundering the planet's rain forests are simply being driven by old-fashioned adult greed. But young people are much more far-sighted than that, and that is why they will ultimately decide the orangutans' fate - and why they will ultimately hold the key to the world's future in their hands."
$560 a day...Hiring patrols to protect Tanjung Puting National Park against the effects of illegal logging and gold mining is having an extremely positive effect; But the patrols cost money: roughly $560 a day. The costs include maintaining 12 police officers in guard posts and on five chartered boats, along with food, salaries, boat drivers, fuel, equipment, administration, and supplies.
Adopt a Day...The OFI is therefore asking young people to come together in groups, "adopt" a particular day in the calendar, and then institute a fundraising program designed to raise enough money to protect the Park for that day!
OFI can provide numerous fundraising products to assist interested groups, schools, and young people with meeting these ambitious fundraising goals. For example, OFI offers brochures that will allow people to replant trees in the endangered rain forest for a cost of as little as $1 a tree. OFI also offers brochures that will allow one to adopt a baby orangutan and receive a certificate complete with an enchanting photo and story of a favored infant. Products can be ordered direct through OFI's website at www.orangutan.org, or by calling OFI's international headquarters in Los Angeles at (800) ORANG-UTAN in US or +1 (323) 938-6046.
"Given the magnitude of and growing interest in this tragedy, along with the increasing popularity of the fundraising products we offer, raising the necessary $560 shouldn't be difficult," notes Dr. Galdikas. "The real challenge will be in finding enough committed young people willing to invest the requisite passion, time, energy, and, yes, stick-to-itiveness that will allow all of us to achieve an indisputably worthwhile goal."
Those who participate in Project 560 will be honored with a Certificate of Recognition, signed by Dr. Galdikas, to be presented to participants during next year's National Orangutan Awareness Week.
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