Saturday, September 17, 2011

Surabaya Zoo visit

I visted Surabaya zoo this week and it was not a refreshment thing to do for me, I found many things that made me sad.

My last visit to this zoo was a few years ago with my niece and nephew. I expected their passion to animals will grow through a visit to the zoo. The result? I am not sure since for me it is always depressing to see lonely animals in the cage.

This time even more depressive to me because I heard many cases and lost of the orangutans.  One of my favorite male died from pneumonia, the vet suspects it was because this orangutan was an active smoker.

Tessy, an adult orangutan who was often seen walked around in the zoo also died..

The giraffe is still alone, really alone, has been with no pair for 5 years.. and the zoo management did not do anything because they are too busy with their own problems.

They said that they have been running the zoo just by feeding the animals and nothing to improve or care for the animal welfare…

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Beautiful Papua

I got a chance to be in Papua for 2 months. Here some pictures of it. lake5Sentani LakeLake view

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Orangutans Need Help!

Dear Friends who love animals and orang-utans especially,

 My main reason to go back to this site is to inform you about something that needs attention.

 A few days earlier I was working at the Ragunan Zoo with Alain Compost, he was making a film of the orangutans that we at COP plan to relocate.

Many of the orangutans in that zoo were wild caught, they were kept in small cages and some of them were still babies when they arrived but now they are adults. They grew huge, adult orangutan is almost like as big as gorilla and imagine a gorila in a small cage in your backyard. Government seems careless.

We are hoping to relocate them back to Kalimantan to where they belong.

 

                                    

  


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Saturday, April 7, 2007

When the River is Contaminated

Sekonyer River is the west boundary of the Tanjung Puting National Park where we work and recently we discovered that some of the fish from this river were contaminated with mercury, the level were above the WHO recomendation, while fish takes big part in the local people’s meal.

we have submitted an article regarding this contamination to the local newspaper “Kalteng Post”  and they published it. It is in Bahasa Indonesia, if you are interested to read it you can find it online in the KALTENG POS ONLINE

http://www.kaltengpos.com/berita/index.asp?Berita=Opini&id=20679

or if you want to know more you can contact us or direct to Yenny Fildayani

 

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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Mercury oh Mercury :(

Hello Everybody..

 

Apa khabar? (How are you? )

I am sorry that  I didn’t upload this site for a long time, here I publish some activities I and FNPF have done with a support from UNIDO (United Nation of Industrial Development Organization). For the past couple of months we have been working closely with the miners, and the governments agencies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Saturday, December 30, 2006

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS ….

May the Christ of Christmas give u numberless blessing during this season

Love

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Friday, November 24, 2006

The Forester is back.


Today w
e got nice a surprise by the forester or the Reforestation Manager. He is back from his “meditation” time to refresh himself after the fire season that has burnt his work. He was so depressed when he left the park until had to swallow sleeping pills every night before he went to bed. We thankful for Mr. Hugo, one of FNPF Borneo’s friend that had spared his time while in Indonesia to visit Basuki at his house in Gunung Kidul, and comforted him. Also for Arta to gave his ears to hear Bas’ broken hearted story of his love for the trees.

We all glad that our reforestation team doesn’t loose the leader.

 

Ok Team move on!

 

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Thanks Volunteers!

Thanks to the Volunteers!

 

Thank you David…

You have been so kind to us by doing amazing work in the information centre in Tanjung Harapan, while you could go somewhere else to spend your summer holiday: ) and still continuing to support us with your painting contribution which  helped us to survive till now.

Terima kasih banyak Pak Guru!

 

Thank you Karin,

We would like to thank for Karin for volunteering with us in September. Karin is from French and stayed with us for three weeks helping the wildlife program. She had helped to clean the orangutan’s cage and also in  preparing line transect for orangutan survey. After Karin got back to her country she continued to help us to raise money in French. 

Merci beacoup, Ikan Karing! Keep up the good work. 

Abientot.   Love

 

Thank you Simonyet,

We just got a short time volunteer who joined us for two weeks time in the park, early this month.  Simon, his name from England, turned  to Simonyet  here, means the Monkey, he has helped us to extinguish the fire and built the puppet show’s stage and also in helped us in surveying the orangutan. Now he’s continuing to volunteer with other wildlife program in Thailand.

Gracias Nyet, wish you luck with all your volunteer experiences!

 

Thank you Kay Howe,

 

At last but not least, thanks for our friend, Kay Howe from US who has been staying with us since early this year to help us with the mercury project and education. Although visa has made her almost give up but she decided to stay and continue the work with us. She must leave the country this week after 6 months stayed in
Indonesia, and now she is going to go to Singapore to get a new visa and will be back next week.
Thank You  Ibu Kay

Everybody, please don’t be hesitate to join us to work as a team; we, orangutan and the trees will be thankfull :)

 

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Sunday, November 19, 2006

Putra Utan painting

Hello Friends

Another great news from here. Yesterday when I got back from a proboscys monkeys expedition we got a text massage from David,  the artist,  telling  that the Putra Utan painting  has been sold,  that means some money will be contributed for the orangutan and the wildlife.

 

Yes, thanks a lot Dave!

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Friday, November 10, 2006

Hujan… (Rain…)

Dear Orang-orang… or Everybody,

A Great news from here.

We had said good bye to the Fire! 

On the 6th of November,we got a lot of rains that has stopped the fire in many parts of Tanjung Putting including in our area. Thank you for your prayers, your supports and wishes.

Love

 

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