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The Ape Vine Heard It Through The Ape Vine www.apeconservationeffort.org Indonesian forest ecosystems because they help spread seeds around 6 the forest, which then become young growth plants and trees, WWF Fires in Borneo on the ground states on their website. Fires in Borneo from space The fires decimated over The fires have been Fires in Borneo 4 million acres of forest particularly tricky to put Create A and set up what will be out, because they have one of the most taken hold in areas with Disaster for devastating peat, a type of soil made environmental disasters of partially decayed plant Orangutans causing harm to humans, material that is rich in carbon and highly By Laura Mayo wildlife and to the planet for decades to come. flammable. Peat, which During the late summer is the first step in coal months of 2015, "Borneo It took awhile, but people formation, releases large Burning" was the all over the world soon amounts of carbon headline seen by those realized how horrific the monoxide and carbon who care for orangutans, fires were. Beginning as dioxide when it burns, predicting riveting events small, mostly illegal ways according to a 2013 study that would take the lives for local farmers as well presented at the Fire of many wild orangutans. as palm oil companies to Behavior and Fuels Borneo, an island quickly ready their land Conference held in territory shared by for planting of new crops, Raleigh, North Carolina. Indonesia, Malaysia, and the fires were fueled by It's often very difficult to Brunei, is home to one of the dry season and put out peat fires because the largest wild orangutan quickly spread out of they can burn and populations in the world. control. The blazes smolder deep An estimated 20,000 of became so severe that underground. the apes live on the NASA satellites were island. The Bornean able to capture dramatic Along with the orangutan is classified as images from space of the obliteration of the an endangered species sprawling smoke. physical forest home of reports the World the wild orangutan, the Wildlife Fund (WWF). fires caused a thick wall These apes play an of smoke, engulfing much important role in of Borneo and Sumatra. A Membership Newsletter January 201 The devastating effects capacity above already www.internationalanimalre on human health may not unheard of limits. scue.org be known for many years. and from For financial information, ACE is proud to lend www.livescience.com/52677 please see Susan Smith's support to International -boreno-fires-hurt- article. orangutans.html, Nov. 5, Animal Rescue (IAR) 2015 article by Elizabeth whose facility in Borneo Newton Laura and Lynn reported now cares for many on the dire need for help orangutans of all ages. Please refer to these sites during the fires in They also work to for additional information. Borneo. Since there was Workers try to control the relocate wild orangutans a quorum of voting spread of fires in Borneo from harm's way to safer members present, it was areas of the forest. decided that money raised What hits home for those from the holiday sales of us who have taken care Today, the rains have table, HoneyBaked Ham of orangutans for many diminished the fires and cards, Mik's bake sale and years is how the fires hurt smoke for now. Because year-end donations would the individual animals. so much land was go to International Acute respiratory destroyed, the already Animal Rescue and be problems particularly dim future for wild earmarked for fire affect the older ones who orangutans is very dire. disaster recovery in may have died because But ACE members and Borneo. they couldn't escape the supporters will hopefully ACE Begins A flames and smoke as well continue to play a role in Thanks to all members as the young orangutans helping the orangutans in New Year and non-members who who may have lost their any way possible to supported our events and ensure better lives for projects. We are glad to mothers, a fate no On November 7, 2015, some of the most be able to continue to orangutan infant should members for ACE incredible animals on the make a difference in the face. gathered for a potluck planet. survival of great apes in dinner and general the wild. meeting. The food was delicious as always, and it Officers and committee was the perfect way to chairs for this year were ring out the old and ring chosen by the new board in the new. Voting for at their January meeting. new board members produced four additions Officers are: to the ACE board: Jane President - Donna Mayer Barron, Lori Kirkland, Todd An orangutan saved from the A lucky survivor of the fires Donna Mayer Todd and fires Gene Todd. They join Vice President - Lynn Laura Mayo is assistant three returning board Luckily, there were Yakubinis curator of primates at Zoo members: Janelle Nord, MANY dedicated people Atlanta and a past officer Susan Smith and Lynn working tirelessly to put and board member of ACE. Secretary - Jane Barron Yakubinis. We out the fires and rescue She traveled to Borneo in appreciate the work the Treasurer - Susan Smith those orangutans needing 2012, when she met and three retiring board help. So many displaced remains friends with members did, and they Board Members - and injured, from infants Christine Nelson, a veterinarian with IAR in are Michele Dave, Julie to adults, were sent to Ketapang. Gaines, and Laura Mayo. Lori Kirkland rescue and rehabilitation centers throughout Janelle Nord Some information for this Borneo - pushing their article came from the following: Gene Todd sales table made over $3,325 - International $950. The usual items Animal Rescue Committee chairs: were offered such as Gorilla Sacks, Christmas $825 - Sumatran Finance - Susan Smith ornaments and note cards. Orangutan Conservation New items this year were Programme Membership and wine and beer glasses that Newsletter- Jane Barron had been painted by some $3,200 (4th quarter of Zoo Atlanta's resident donation) - International Apes in the Arts - Lori great apes, branching out Animal Rescue Kirkland 2015 - A from their regular Successful Year painting of ornaments, Gorilla Golf - Jodi plus signed copies of Carrigan and Lynn of Fundraising Jeffrey - Take a Walk in Yakubinis December by Karin By Susan Smith Konoval. Fundraising - Lori Kirkland and Laura Mayo ACE had another year of At the year-end ACE successful fundraising, meeting, membership Marketing/Advertising - raising over $31,000 voted to donate all the Donna Mayer Todd and (after expenses) to help money raised in the last What is Lynn Yakubinis save the great apes. quarter of 2015 to help Large events like Apes in with the critical fire International Research - Gene Todd the Arts, Run for the situation in Borneo. Redheads, and Gorilla Funds from the sales Animal Rescue? Social Media - Lynn Golf, as well as smaller table, HoneyBaked Ham Saving Animals From Yakubinis fundraisers like Yankee gift cards, GoodSearch Suffering Around the Candle, HoneyBaked reward, and donations World Run for the Redheads - Ham gift cards, and Dine- collected during this 2016 will be a year to re- Out at Doc Chey's all period, along with www.internationalanimalres evaluate and remodel the helped to bring in funds revenue from Mik Chari's cue.org R4R. More later. that were distributed to bake sale and Darlene various organizations. Bohanon's party, totaling IAR is a group that ACE $3,200 will be sent to is supporting to save The organizations that we International Animal orangutans from the supported included Rescue to help in this Indonesian fires. This is Friends of Bonobos, effort. With this year's background of the group Sumatran Orangutan final donation, ACE has from their website, and Conservation Programme, donated over $145,000 uses the spelling on the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund toward saving the great website. We feel they are International, Tacugama apes - a job well done! a group with a mission Chimpanzee Sanctuary similar to ACE and we and International Animal Donations made in 2015 are proud to support Rescue. Each of these them. organizations works $2,850 - Friends of directly with great apes in Bonobos "At International Animal the wild, where our Rescue we do exactly fundraising efforts can do $2,850 - Tacugama what our name says - we the most good. Chimpanzee Sanctuary save animals from suffering around the Our final fundraiser was $17,546 - Dian Fossey world. Our work held at the December Gorilla Fund International includes cutting free and meeting of Zoo Atlanta caring for dancing bears volunteers. The ACE in India, rescuing primates from captivity in accounts department and there and engaging new Indonesia, and sterilising supporter care. The UK audiences in order to and vaccinating stray office works closely with establish a wider network was an urgent need for dogs and cats in the teams in India, of individuals committed something larger and developing countries. Indonesia and Malta to to supporting our animal better equipped. Wherever possible we ensure the projects run welfare and conservation return rescued animals to smoothly. projects. Thanks to the generosity their natural environment of our supporters, we but we also provide a International Animal Borneo Orangutan were able to buy 24 permanent home for Rescue has no connection Rescue hectares of land in Sungai animals that can no whatsoever with the The plight of the Awan and at the longer survive in the group know as "The orangutan in Indonesia beginning of 2012 we wild. International Animals has reached a critical started building a Rescue Foundation." stage, with the survival of permanent Orangutan As human populations the species under severe Rescue and Rehabilitation expand, wildlife comes International Animal threat.
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