SIBU: The Sarawak Forestry Corporation is to extend its Orangutan Donation Drive for Schools programme to create awareness and share the responsibility of wildlife conservation with more young people.
The programme, which started with six schools in Kuching and now encompassed 15 schools here, 16 in Miri and six in Bintulu, would also target rural schools.
The programme was "more of an awareness campaign and sharing the responsibility of wildlife conservation among the new generation rather than merely collecting contributions from them".
Measures introduced since the 1990s had kept the primate population stable, with about 2,500 individuals at the Lanjak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary, Batang Ai National Park and Ulu Sebuyau National Park, all in the Sri Aman Division with a combined area of 250,000 hectares.
The orangutan rehabilitation programme begun in 1962 had rehabilitated 16 individuals in the Semenggoh and Matang wildlife centres, and there were now 27 individuals in Semenggoh and 18 in Matang. The process is complicated, time-consuming and expensive.
The corporation had so far collected RM605,000 from 16 corporate entities under its Orangutan Adoption programme, including from Ambank Group, the first local bank which had contributed RM300,000. The corporation targeted to collect about RM500mil from timber royalty and cess this year, including about RM115mil from the Sibu area, more than RM140mil from Miri and RM165mil from Bintulu.
On other conservation programmes are marine conservation programmes in Kuala Lawas, Limbang, and at Tanjung Datu National Park in Kuching for wildlife such as dolphins, sea turtles and dugongs.
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Perhaps we can do the same thing for the Milky Storks in Kuala Gula and Matang Forest Reserve in Perak.
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