artwork by Yuki Koishikawa
Tomorrow is the first ever International Red Panda Day.
Some ideas about how you can celebrate:
-visit a participating zoo. find a red panda near you.
-encourage a child to become a red panda ranger – info available here
-show your Red Panda love with one of our Red Panda Tees
Have you ever heard an orangutan giggle? You should! Whenever I need a little cheering up – I listen to this: OrangutanLaughing
That is baby Sen (pictured above) laughing when he is tickled. You can help support orangutan conservation buy adopting Sen.
Thank you to music master and orangutan artist – Ali Spagnola for making that .wav file.
Happy Orangutan Awareness week! I am having a Orangutan party tonight – which pretty much means drinking wine and watching Rainforest Action Network’s videos on Indonesia’s forests. For more information on orangutan conservation check out our Orangutan Facts page.
I finally finished my embroidery for the Sea Turtle Benefit Art Show today. Don’t forget to go check out the show and support Sea Turtle conservation.
Make sure to check out Sea Turtle Restoration Project’s Benefit Art Show & Sale this Saturday.
I have to get moving and finish embroidering this piece I am going to donate:
Here are some great pieces by artists participating.
Johanna Rodgers Evans
See samples of other available artwork here.
Check out Real Housewives of NJ’s Caroline Manzo in our Gibbon Shirt.
Caroline Manzo from BravoTv
10% of the profits from our Gibbon Shirt are donated to the Sumatran Orangutan Society’s Tree Replanting Program. They are working to restore the quickly disappearing rainforest habitats of Sumatra. Sumatra is home to three species of gibbon, the Lar Gibbon (top), Agile Gibbon (middle), and Siamang (bottom). All three species are endangered due to habitat loss.
Fun Facts:
-Gibbons are monogamous.
-Gibbons aren’t monkeys – they are apes – like humans. This mean they have big brains and no tails.
-Gibbon calls seriously sound like car alarms. Check one out here: Silvery Gibbon Call
-Gibbons have a ball and socket wrist joint which allows them to move quickly and gracefully through the tree tops.
Katie Daisy of The Wheatfield
Is donating 50% of the profits from her “Save Our Seas” print to the National Wildlife Federation’s Oil Spill Clean Up.
Love all her work and new website. Just had to post this amazing orangutan drawing she is doing for an endangered species series.
Yay!! For Cadbury, last month Cadbury New Zealand announced they’d be producing all their chocolate to be Palm Oil Free! Cadbury’s descision was a reaction to the hundreds of letters the recieved! So keep sending those letters. And for now you can eat Cadbury Chocolate (at least if you live in New Zealand)!
I am off to Sabah in Malaysian Borneo for two weeks. It will be a whirl wind trip with Scuba diving at Sipadan, Jungle Trekking at Tabin and Danum Valley, and visiting the orangutans I volunteered with at Sepilok!
My next post probably won’t be till September unless I randomly make it to an internet cafe and post about the trip!
Here are some fun maps of Sabah!
While I was searching through email for those maps I also found this map I designed for Lok Kawi Wildlife Park – the first modern zoo in Borneo!
