Ways You Can Help Orangutans this Giving Tuesday

Dear Friends,

It’s Giving Tuesday today, and I hope you are giving some thought to how you can help out the causes you care about.  Here at Tim Laman Photography, we are supporting our long-term partner the “Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program” and their campaign “Save Wild Orangutans”.

Here are four ways you can be engaged:

1. Make a one-time donation HERE.   https://www.savewildorangutans.org/donate/
2. Join the Team!  Sign up to make a monthly donation HERE.  https://www.savewildorangutans.org/join-the-team/.   As a perk of being a regular donor, even for a small amount like $5 or $10/month, you will receive our “Orangutan Diaries” updates from the field.
3. Buy an Orangutan print today.  It’s the last day of our Holiday Print Sale, and 50% of profits will be donated directly to Save Wild Orangutans.  Visit my gallery HERE.  https://www.timlamanfineart.com/orangutans
4. Join my Live Art Sale & Conservation Fundraiser tomorrow, Dec 1 at 6PM Eastern.  I will be selling prints from my inventory here in the studio.  Half of profits from orangutan prints will also be donated to Save Wild Orangutans, and there are many unique orangutan prints in this collection.  Check my Instagram or FB tomorrow Dec 1 for details.

Mist in the Canopy, Gunung Palung

At SAVE WILD ORANGUTANS, the orangutans themselves are of course the key flagship species we focus attention on.  But what wild orangutans need is healthy rainforest habitat like the lowland forest of Gunung Palung, pictured above.  When we work to protect habitat for orangutans, we save the entire spectrum of biodiversity in the rich lowland forests of Borneo.  So please think about that as you contemplate how you can help this Giving Tuesday.  You can learn a lot more about all the ways the team in Indonesia is working toward this goal of forest habitat protection at the main website www.savegporangutans.org.

The Incredible Biodiversity of Gunung Palung

As one of the very best remaining lowland forests in all of Borneo, Gunung Palung harbors an incredible variety of creatures besides orangutans.  Here are just a few examples:

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  Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) adult male. Perched in the canopy of the Borneo rain forest.

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  A White-bearded Gibbon, one of the other primates besides orangutans (also an endangered species), found in Gunung Palung.

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  A Malayan Soft-shelled Turtle, an example of the rich aquatic life in the pristine streams of Gunung Palung.

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  A Clouded Leopard, the largest cat in Borneo, and one of five cat species found in Gunung Palung.

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   The Bornean Orangutan, here represented by the adult male Code, a long-time resident of Gunung Palung.

How Do We Save The Forest and All This Biodiversity?

Youth gather for World Orangutan Day in Ketapang, West Kalimantan

It’s all about getting the local communities around Gunung Palung to realize that protecting the forest is in their long term best interest.  It starts with the kids, and goes right on up to village leaders and government officials.  That’s why the Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program, with its staff of nearly fifty Indonesians, works at all levels to spread this message.  

So thanks for considering your support for Orangutans this Giving Tuesday.  I hope that one of the ways I have suggested above will work for you to lend a hand!

Warmest regards,

Tim Laman

PS.  Today is the last day of my Holiday Sale and Fundraiser at  TimLamanFineArt.com.  All prints are 30% off till midnight tonight Nov 30!