Falklands : Orang-Utans to Benefit from Falklands Walk
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 09.10.2005 (Article Archived on 27.10.2005)
Falklands Conservation is organising this year's World Wildlife Fund for Nature walk to save the Orang-Utans.
ORANG-UTANS TO BENEFIT FROM FALKLANDS WALK
Just before the walk began, watch group members and others gathered on Victory Green for this photo
By J. Brock (FINN)
The annual World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) walk for Wildlife took place pm Sunday, 09 October 2005 beginning at Victory Green at 1000 hrs. This year’s walk benefited Orang-Utans.
According to the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, 91% of the world’s population of Orang-Utans that are indigenous to the Pacific and Indian Ocean Islands in Malaya, Indonesia and New Guinea has been lost over the past 100 years. Many Orang-Utans lost their lives during land clearance fires set in Indonesia and Malaya late last century and during this century. Only 2% of the Orang-Utans’ habitat is left protected.
The walk ended at Gypsy Cove. More later when the money raised is known
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