Orangutans
in Crisis
Alive, open, worldwide interactive video forum on the Internet for one hour
Come join us for an exciting new initiative that lets an audience on the Internet interact live with speakers.
Come join us for an exciting new initiative that lets an audience on the Internet interact live with speakers.
Questions
for consideration: What is the situation inside Indonesia now politically and
socially in terms of protecting orangutans and the rain forest? What is being
done to spread the word? What could we be doing? What is the current status of
orangutans?
Listen
to speakers, ask questions, give your own point of view by voice or instant
messaging.
Saturday,
Nov 12, 2011 for one hour only (for those in North America, Europe and Africa;
Sunday, Nov. 13 in Australia and Southeast Asia)
Starting
times around the world: 5 p.m. Saturday eastern time (U.S.); 4 p.m. Saturday central
time (U.S.); 3 p.m. Saturday mountain time (U.S.); 2 p.m. Saturday Pacific time
(U.S.); 6 p.m. Saturday Brasilia, Brazil;10 p.m. Saturday London, England; 11
p.m. Saturday Barcelona, Spain; 11 p.m. Saturday Berlin, Germany; 11 p.m. Saturday
Cape Town, South Africa; 12 a.m. Sunday Helsinki, Finland; 2 a.m. Sunday New
Delhi, India; 4 a.m. Sunday Jakarta, Indonesia; 5 a.m. Sunday Perth, Australia;
5 a.m. Sunday Singapore; 5 a.m. Sunday Shanghai, China; 5 a.m. Sunday Beijing,
China; 5 a.m. Sunday Singapore; 8 a.m. Sunday Sydney, Australia.
Join
the speakers, Gary Shapiro, an orangutan scientist and the president of the
Orang Utan Republik, just back from Indonesia; Leif Cocks, head of the
Australian Orangutan Project; and Hardi Baktiantoro, an orangutan campaigner
and the head of Centre for Orangutan Protection in Indonesia.
moderator:
Shawn Thompson, author of The Intimate
Ape: Orangutans and the Secret Life of an Endangered Species
Part
of the purpose of this forum is to foster a community of people communicating
with each around the world to work together to save orangutans. This will be
the first interactive video web forum in this series at www.bigmarker.com. Ideas
for future broadcasts include hearing from leading ape scientists,
conservationists and campaigners, like Marc Ancrenaz in Borneo, live video
tours of different ape sanctuaries around the world, and a special session on
musicians, music and apes. Other forums can be organized on topics of your
choice.
You
can reach the moderator and organizer Shawn Thompson at
www.bigmarker.com/orangutan or intimateape@hotmail.com
The
Orang Utan Republik is a non-profit organization working at the grass-roots
level in Indonesia to create an awareness within the country about orangutans.
The Australian Orangutan Project is a non-profit organization
headed by Leif Cocks that raises money for its own projects and many other
projects such as: Nyaru Menteng, Orangutan Care and Quarantine Centre, PanEco,
Sumatran Orangutan Society, Frankfurt Zoological Society, Orang Utan Republik,
Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Program, International Animal Rescue, and
Centre for Orangutan Protection. For more information on these projects visit www.orangutan.org.au
The
Centre for Orangutan Protection is "a direct-action group of Indonesian
people who campaign to bring an urgent end to the destruction of our rain
forests and the killing of orangutans." For information see http://www.orangutanprotection.com
To
join the video forum, go to www.bigmarker.com and create an account to log in. The
conference is at www.bigmarker.com/orangutan/crisis. Please use your real name
and location when you log in so that the moderator and the audience can
identify you. Unidentified speakers can listen, but will not be allowed to
speak, in the interests of transparency and accountability. Those who log in
will be also be able to comment and ask questions through instant messaging
visible to the whole group. Once you have logged in, find "Orangutans in
Crisis." The controls are easy. If you want to ask a question or speak
during the forum, click the hand button for the moderator to see and manage the
speakers from the audience in order. You will need a web cam and a microphone
on your computer to speak. You can also send a private text message to the
moderator during the discussion. If you wish, you can join the Orangutan Club
International at www.bigmarker.com/orangutan to help with these interactive web
forums and with publicity for orangutans and other apes.
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