{"id":5414,"date":"2015-04-28T18:07:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2015-04-28T18:07:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:07:37","slug":"earth-week-activity-for-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/earth-week-activity-for-oc\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Week Activity for OC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/126224117?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/about-us\/\">Orangutan Conservancy <\/a>had the great pleasure of extending Earth Day into a veritable Earth Week as we attended two separate events this past week to spread the world about orangutans and their rainforest home.<\/p>\n<p>Having the opportunity to\u00a0attend live events and explain more about orangutans is one of the things\u00a0that OC\u00a0always strives to\u00a0do here in the USA, and we&#8217;re able to do that more often with our colleagues from the California Orangutan Alliance who joined us at the two events at the JPL\/NASA Earth Day Fair in Pasadena and\u00a0the next day\u00a0at California State University Northridge for their &#8220;Earth Fair&#8221;.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some footage from the CSUN event and you can see some JPL footage on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OrangutanConservancy?ref=hl\">Facebook<\/a> page too.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for sure, no matter where the venue, we&#8217;re seeing an increase in public awareness\u00a0to the orangutan&#8217;s plight.\u00a0 A growing number of people are now aware of the main threat to orangutans\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/threats-to-orangutans\/\">palm oil <\/a>&#8211; and are making educated, sustainable \u00a0choices when they\u00a0shop, and more and more companies are finally hearing the message.\u00a0 Just this past week McDonald&#8217;s pledged to eliminate deforestation from its\u00a0entire supply chain, and that occurred because of increasing public pressure on the fast food giant.<\/p>\n<p>As public pressure to better protect orangutans increases so too will the numbers of these great apes\u00a0living free in the wild.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why we encourage our supporters and all that care about <a href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/orangutans\/\">orangutans<\/a> to use social media to let others know what is happening to our forest friends in Indonesia and what they can do at home to make a lasting difference for orangutans.<\/p>\n<p>The threats of deforestation, palm oil, poaching and the illegal pet trade that orangutans face certainly haven&#8217;t diminished, but the response from a more\u00a0demanding public is now\u00a0showing real results.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing many of you at future events in and around California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orangutan Conservancy had the great pleasure of extending Earth Day into a veritable Earth Week as we attended two separate events this past week to spread the world about orangutans and their rainforest home. 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