2021 has been another unusual year, but I’m still feeling thankful. This thanksgiving holiday, I want to help raise awareness and support for Orangutan Conservation in Borneo. I hope you will take a moment to read on.
As those of you who have followed my work for a while know, documenting the lives of wild orangutans in partnership with my wife, researcher Cheryl Knott, has been a major part of my life’s work over that past 25 years. Using the media I create to spread the word in National Geographic articles and films has been a big part of what I do. But it has now been two years since I was last in Borneo in documenting orangutans. Yet, we are fortunate that the non-profit group Cheryl founded, now run in Indonesia by an Indonesian team of over thirty people, have been able to persist throughout the pandemic in their conservation, education, and community support activities that all help to protect orangutans in Gunung Palung, one of the world’s most important remaining wild orangutan sanctuaries.
So I’m very thankful to them and for all their efforts, and I’m dedicating this newsletter and print-sale fundraiser to the Gunung Palung Orangutan Project!
Please scan below for ways you can help this important cause.
This photograph is available as a print along with all the other orangutan images on sale now for my Giving Tuesday fundraiser (I will donate 50% of profits from all orangutan print sales to the Gunung Palung Orangutan Project).
Ways You Can Help Support Orangutans
1) Become a supporting member of the Save Wild Orangutans initiative. Commit to a monthly donation of any amount from $5 on up to support the conservation efforts and receive our periodic blog updates. Check it out here:
2) Buy an orangutan print to support the cause and give yourself a nice reminder of your support for orangutan conservation. Or give a print as a gift! I am donating 50% of profits from orangutan print sales to Save Wild Orangutans until Dec 1 (Giving Tuesday). All prints in my orangutan gallery are on sale, but here are a few examples:
12 inch square prints are on sale for $105, including “Live Streaming – Borneo 2020”, which was our most popular print during last years’ fundraiser. A fun print to hang in your bathroom, perhaps??
12 inch square prints are on sale for $105, including “Live Streaming – Borneo 2020”, which was our most popular print during last years’ fundraiser. A fun print to hang in your bathroom, perhaps??
30 inch prints are now $350!
As the year winds down, there are good signs of hope for a better year ahead for all of us and let’s hope for orangutans as well. Thanks for your support, and please do whatever you can to help spread the word for orangutan conservation. As Margaret Mead famously said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”
I believe that. Let’s do this together.
Happy Thanksgiving to all,
Tim
PS. If you’d like to learn more about our orangutan conservation and research work, here are the key websites:
Save Wild Orangutans – the portal for our community of supporters
Gunung Palung Orangutan Project home page
