HELP BORNEO ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL AND HELP ME HELP OUR CLOSEST COUSINS...“ the family Hominidae consisting of chimpanzees, gorillas, humans and orangutans, collectively known as the great apes. ” (source: Wikipedia)

BOS (Borneo Orangutan Survival) is a major registered charity. BOS has received continual worldwide media coverage for it's essential and valiant work to save this critically endangered species - including a the BBC series "Orangutan Diary". Donating through Justgiving is quick, easy and totally secure. Donations go to the charity and not to me. It’s also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Borneo Orangutan Survival gets your money faster and, if you’re a UK taxpayer, Justgiving makes sure 25% in Gift Aid, plus a 3% supplement, are added to your donation ... THIS IS MY MOST URGENT APPEAL

So please do something beautiful (and make me happy) by sponsoring me now!

with Love - Tatyana

ORANGUTAN FACTS:

Did you know that?...

A 1 year old baby orangutan and a 3 year old child show the same emotional development and cognitive skills.

Orangutans share 97% of our DNA (meaning they are among our closest relatives on earth) and that they are in the same evolutionary family tree as humans.

This sentient and highly intelligent species is being persecuted and slaughtered by the palm oil industry into extinction - the work charities like BOS does is critical for the species survival.

Palm Oil is the 2nd most used oil in the world. It is earmarked for bio-fuel and present in about 75% of ordinary consumer goods... it is in everything from soap and lipgloss to cookies and pizza.

Palm is NOT the problem and we don't have to stop using it...Palm itself is NOT damaging to the orangutan population, or the environment. Palm oil is necessary to the Indonesian economy and a highly useful resource. The crisis is due to unchecked greed of the Palm oil industrialists who unnecessary destroy virgin land to make extra profit, even though this practice is casing havoc to the global environment - suitable already barren land is available in abundance in the region.

World governments are making quotas for “carbon neutral” Bio-Fuel to help the environment - ironically preparations for the so called “green” energy source have instead caused catastrophic damage to the planet.

The excessive deforestation in Borneo and Sumatra by the Palm Oil Industry is causing a global crisis by producing unbelievably high CO2 emmissions - this has been described by professionals in the scientific community as catastrophic

Although the Indonesian government ceased peatland logging concessions to palm planters in 2007 it is not policing illegal plantations sufficiently and land continues to be devastated

This is NOT a myopic, faddish or anti-capitalist concern, it is a practical world concern... A tiny region of our earth is now the 3rd largest emitter of carbon dioxide in th WORLD, innocent creatures extremely close to ourselves are being persecuted and murdered... all due to the unmanaged and nearsighted actions of a few  industrialists.

ADDITIONAL EXPLANATORY & TECHNICAL INFORMATION:(if you can't donate £'s/$'s and you are unfamiliar with the issue, please can you instead give 20 minutes of your time to educate yourself on it's importance – video links below)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxioapZ1nww (sad, but uplifting)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz3n4th97Zk (truth about bio fuel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWzTBfd27uM (very informative, easy to watch)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsR_IpECSZ8    (Sky News 10 min, start at 4:00 if you don't have time)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IvA38P5rbg (orphan's rescue from a plantaion)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odI7pQFyjso (quick professional commercial)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIgOAu2v4E8 (message from founder)

ABOUT ME:

 I trained in visual and performing arts as a youth, and later majored in sculpture and design at Syracuse university, where I had the privilege of training under the late, great Rodger Mack. I moved to London right after school and have had a pretty full life in that time. After almost a year starving on £3.50 an hour (one of my best jobs!), I started worked for myself and have since been involved in a variety of projects mixing the creative and emotive with the practical. I've had luck and misfortune and more than my share my share of thrilling success and agonizing failures, both professionally and personally... although I could have done with less of the misfortune and failures to be honest (not that I am being ungrateful).... After a very, very, long roller-coaster ride, I finally realized business was not only not for me – it was killing me! So, about 3.5 years ago I left my defunct business head behind and started a small production company (by small I mean myself) writing, presenting and producing positive based lifestyle programs on video and also writing screenplays, which is what I am doing now. For my future I hope to one day create an animal sanctuary, or some other sort of significant animal related foundation, to continue my writing professionally and perhaps in later years to eventually be able to return to visual fine art as a hobby.

My vocational interests lie mainly in animal welfare – specifically the protection of orangutans and other great apes. Another main concern is with the protection and ethical treatment of factory farmed animals (that is animals “mass produced” for human consumption). This is an underrepresented area – even by those who make animal welfare their focus. And yet in order to nourish and clothe most of the world, commercially farmed animals typically suffer the vast majority of the continuous and shocking daily cruelty inflicted on animals on our planet. With all their fur and teeth and claws animals are fragile. Their suffering at the hands of ignorance, greed, heartlessness, human desperation and apathy, is not something we can ignore as we sit looking down from the top of the food chain. For the great privilege of primacy, the welfare of the other species we share this earth with must be our responsibility. Animals feel pain and fear and sadness. They feel love and comfort and joy. Animals are innocent and their plight created by human kind touches me more than I can say.

with Love Tatyana

          Please also visit the other 2 charities that I actively support:

          CIWF - Compassion in World Farming  

          WSPA - World Society for the Protection of Animals

if you want to contact me personally you can e-mail me at: tatyanahill@aol.com  or my Facebook page: tatyana valda belinda hill