My Orangutan Campaign update – UK, Australia, Kansas & new website!

Orangutan campaign Sandra Dean update UK

Hi to all my Orangutan campaign supporters and readers!

I just wanted to update you with progress of my Orangutan appeal, as you may have noticed that I have not been posting to this site recently.  Well, this is because I have been working on my new dedicated website www.orangehairyape.com [...]

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Essex Life magazine - my interview by Sandra M Dean

Essex Life Sandra M Dean June 2010 Questionnaire

Essex Life magazine interviewed me in this months back page questionnaire (June 2010) which was great for me and it also helped me to bring awareness to my Orangutan Campaign once again in the media. 

Being a magazine that promotes Essex and all it has to offer, both [...]

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Reply from Defra regarding palm oil and Orangutan issues

I wrote to Lord Mandelson in May 2009 and received this reply(below)  in October 2009 which was a little disappointing time wise, however it is a lengthy reply and at last answers my questions.

I was delighted to find that the Government are funding a two year project with the RSPO to review and improve the [...]

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Reply from Clarins on their palm oil useage

Reply from Clarins on their palm oil useage

The reply from Clarins was dismal – it took nearly 4 months and a lot of pestering to get any reply at all, and when I did it was insufficient. I had already promised to use body shop products and use up the Clarins that I was using, [...]

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My UK campaign to stop Cadbury using Palm oil – let's follow Australia/New Zealand!

palm oil kernel

My UK campaign to stop Cadbury using Palm oil – lets follow Australia/New Zealand!

Australian and New Zealand people power has overcome Cadbury, who have decided to stop using palm oil in many products, due to the petitioning and campaigning of the Australians. This is wonderful news, but just a start in [...]

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Cadbury Australia/New Zealand take palm oil out of chocolate!

palm oil in Cadbury

Cadbury Australia/New Zealand take palm oil out of chocolate

How did they do it ? Read about how Australia and New Zealand did it below….

New Zealand information…..

The Cadbury’s NZ move was a collective effort with Auckland Zoo being a main player along with Judith Collins in Dunedin who is the producer for [...]

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Emergency Appeal! Forest fires in Borneo harming Orangutans!

forest fires in Borneo

Emergency Appeal – “Forest fires are breaking out in the Sabangau forests in Central Kalimantan jeopardising the lives of the estimated 8,000 wild orangutans living there.  Please dontate now!

 

The burning season has started with a vengeance and as you read this appeal vast swathes of pristine orangutan habitat are under threat. [...]

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My Woman's Own Story publication – please read it!

 

04 Aug 09 Sandra M Dean Womans own magazine orangutan campaign

Hello, I just wanted to let you know that my story is in Woman’s Own magazine (over 300,000 readers!) this week – a double page article!  It is a personal story and the story behind this website, so if you are near a newsagent, have [...]

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My Orangutan & Palm Oil Campaign

My Orangutan Campaign

The Orangutan is nearly 97% human (DNA) and they are such innocent and gentle primates – please help to save this species!

Firstly, don’t we all love the cute faces of the Orangutan’s we see at the Zoo’s and on TV in programmes such as Orangutan Diary? Well, behind all of that is a [...]

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SOS – Sumatran Orangutan Society

Sumatran Orangutan Society -

Their projects in Sumatra operate through the Orangutan Information Centre (SOS-OIC). They founded this organization in 2001 in collaboration with a group of dedicated Indonesian conservationists to raise awareness of environmental and orangutan conservation issues amongst local communities living in North Sumatra and Aceh.

As they say on their website: Sumatran orangutans are [...]

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