CONGRATULATION GREENPEACEl SANTANDER STOPPED DESTRUCTION OF RAINFORESTS -- Update 12 June, 2015

ORANG  UTAN

LATEST NEWS -  12 June, 2015 -- Greenpeace had further talks with APRIL and they decided now to stop the deforestation completely. It is fantastic good news because hundred thousands of acres of ancient rainforest will be saved.


UPDATE:  27 February, 2015 --  Good News UK Santander promised to pull out backing APRIL.  Whether that means all the backing and if their promise is true and immediately, remains to be seen. At least Greenpeace received that promise. It also remains to be seen whether the other backers are pulling out. Banks and Financials world seem to have lost principles these days. 

UPDATE: 20 February, 2015 -- As much as Greenpeace keeps pressuring Santander they still buying time  by saying they awaiting APRIL's report. This is not good enough because every day another piece of rainforest is lost forever. It has to be stopped immediately to avoid another part of the rainforest  gone forever. Greenpeace is trying to get an appointment with the top chief executive but, unfortunately, it is still another day lost and with that a piece of rainforest.  Santander could have stopped it weeks and months ago when Greenpeace started contacting them.

Right now, digger are cutting down Indonesia’s rainforest and pushing Oran Utan, tigers, sun bears and many other species towards extinction.

The banking group Santander is backing APRIL a pulp and paper company with millions of pounds to destroy Indonesia’s rainforest.

Tell Santander to stop final extinction or you will withdraw your account but tell them why.

Over the last few years Santander have loaned millions to APRIL which chopping down Indonesia’s rainforest at an alarming rate. If Santander wants to be responsible company, it needs to end the loans now and this would hot APRIL where it hurts most – in the pockets.

If you like to sign the competition please click on 

 www.greenpeace.org.uk/santander

which takes you straight to the competition to sign.  It would be great to receive signatures, as many as possible. It would increase the pressure to stop. 

IF THAT DOES NOT MAKE YOUR 

HEART BLEED, NOTHING WILL

Greenpeace forced already Santander to admit that they support APRIL financially but the High Street branches say it’s monitoring the situation and will act accordingly. It is nothing but a white wash and playing for time. So far Santander used to deny them financial support to APRIL. While all this was and is going on the rainforest has been cut down and that was exactly what they were playing at. Only after 75,000 of Greenpeace took action Santander admitted their financial support but still refuses to stop.

According to Greenpeace APRIL had been destroying rainforest for years. It is not known how long Santander advanced loans to them.

Santander said it is waiting for APRIL’s results of a sustainable forest management which is an again a white wash and playing for time. It still does not give the result of stopping cutting down the rainforest which Greenpeace and all of us want. The rainforest is such a complicated environment which only nature could make links between many species and plants and once it is destroyed it can never be established again. It will affect not only Orang Utans, tigers, sun bears and many other smaller species and many plants and birds which are all relying on each other.  Once the chain is broken it would result into                                                                                                  extinction of many.

                               WHICH PICTURE IS BETTER !!!!!! 
  IT HAS TO STOP NOW NOT WAITING FOR THIS REPORT AND THAT REPORT.  ALL A NAME OF THE GAME AND  IN THE MEANTIME THE DESTRUCTION GOES ON.  THAT IS THEIR AIM.                                                     

KPMG assessed APRIL last year.  A leaked report
says that not one of APRIL’S suppliers has met its policy and that includes Santander.

APRIL gave another promise to rectify it but APRIL is known to make and break promises and al the time another piece of rainforest has gone and that is their real policy.

Now we come to the final point; unless the backers all pull out immediately and it has to be immediately APRIL will not stop to destroy Indonesia’s rainforest and drive Orang Utans, tigers, sun bears, rare pygmy elephant and many other species driven to extinctions.

Indonesia's rainforests are home to untold number of plants and animals. Over the years, scientists uncover more rare species that can not be found anywhere else. Yet, the forests are disappearing fast, as greedy companies chop down the trees to make paper and packaging.

ORANG UTAN

ORANG UTAN

The continuous reduction of the rainforest for agricultural land is a great threat to the Orang Utan. They are  a shy animal and lives solitary. Orang Utan means big man of the forest in Malayan language.

There are one species orang utan and nine species of gibbons are members of the ape family. They inhabit the jungle of south-east Asia’s mainland and islands and therefore known as Asian apes.  The agile gibbons are lesser apes but the orang utan is a beautiful example of the great apes.

The orang utan is one species but the group which lives in Borneo differs slightly from the one living in Sumatra. The Sumatran orang utan is thinner, paler and has long hair and a longer face.

SUMATRAN
ORANG UTAN 

The orang utan has a long, red, shaggy hair the faces bare but for the Sumatran male which has a long beard. The adult male is almost twice the size of the female. It is even more emphasised by the development of great, fleshy flanges on both sides of the face, a high fatty crown on the top of his head. He also has a large throat sack from which he produces his loud call. When the male matures his hairs are getting darker.

The orang utan’s long arms help him to swing through he trees. His method of swinging he reaches out from one branch and gets hold of another. He then shakes it vigorously until the whole trees sways to make sure the branch is strong enough to support his weight. His feet are very much like his hands and look like his fingers.

BORNEO ORANG UTAN

The orang utan is different to the ape species in such that he is almost solitary. Only the female has a lasting contact with her offsprings. Adult males establish their own territory but are not very particular about it.  They also wander across their own boundaries. When adults meet in some area they either ignore each other or they can have a noisy and violent confronting.

The orang utan moves around and eats during the day. Although his weight is heavy but they spend most of the time in the trees. They also make a nest in the tree with branches and leaves to sleep in. They bend and weave a number of branches together and then build their nest on it.  Older males spend more time on the ground floor. It is assumed that their great weight is stopping them to climb up into the trees.

They spend most of their day time eating and mainly fruit. Their strong jaws are able to break open shells of the favourite fruit. They have great variety of food such as leaves nuts, shoots, tree bark, insects, birds’ eggs, birds and mammals,

The orange Utah highly developed memory helps him to know where the fruit trees are and the season of the year.

BREEDING

The male has several females in his territory. When one of them is ready to mate they stay together over several weeks, mating several times.  The moment the female is pregnant they split and don’t want to know each other any more. However, the male will move to other females and mate again.

The female has one single young and the gestation period is 260-270 days.  The young one stays with the mother and clinging to its fur. It will be weaned after three years. It will stay with the mother until she is pregnant again. This will be normally after five years. The female can give birth to young ones till she is 30 years old.

The youngster will then go off and establish a territory of their own but still keeping in contact and play with each other. When they are 10 or 15 years old and they are fully matured they move on.

The mature male is known for its spectacularly loud and long call. He then tares branches off and throws them to the ground.  The calls start with a low-pitched sound then it gets gradually louder and louder eventually it reaches a crescendo of a long bellows which then ends into a low-pitch sound again.  This can last for one to three minutes. It is assumed that it is an advertisement to attract sexually receptive females. .