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Guess what monkeys!? Today the staff officially adopted the baby orangutan for 1 WHOLE year, Monti, woohoo!! ^.^ Here is a full story with more pictures of her and a video of other orangutans, who were saved and helped by Orangutan OutReach from Go Bananas posted by Andrea! :D There also a chance for us to help adopt the other monkey, Kesi, too! :O

Isn't she so cute?

Monti was rescued by International Animal Rescue (IAR) and brought to the emergency rescue transit centre in Ketapang, West Kalimantan in Indonesia, last November.

An anonymous caller had contacted local forestry workers, saying that a family had found a young orangutan baby all alone in the jungle and had been taking care of her ever since.  But the truth is quite different to this and far more horrible. 
Someone had killed Monti's mother to get to her.  An orangutan mother would never voluntarily give up her baby.  A young orangutan baby can fetch up to $50 which is 2 months salary for a farmer.  Then, if she survives, the criminal wildlife trader who has bought her for $50 could sell her for as much as $50,000 overseas!

Monti is still very small and needs an enormous amount of love and care -- just like a human baby!  For now she's drinking lots of milk and sleeping a lot, which is normal for an orangutan her size. As she grows she will begin to explore and make new friends, such as Sigit, Malky and Bunga.




What would have happened to Monti if she had not been rescued by the IAR team?  She could be dead....or worse: She might have become an illegal pet for a wealthy family in a big capital city of Indonesia.  Or she may have been smuggled out of the country and forced to perform a humiliating show for tourists in some animal park in Thailand.  Thankfully Monti was saved.

Monti's fate is now in a lot of people's hands -- Orangutan Outreach will do everything they can to work with IAR to make sure Monti has a future -- and that she will have a forest to go back to when she is ready to do so. I'm glad we are also helping her!

Below is a video of some other orangutans who Orangutan Outreach help.  Kesi is in this video!  I have just found out that Kesi is now 5 years old.

Because it was so hard to decide between Kesi and Monti, here's how we can manage to adopt Kesi too: From today, if we get 250 Gold memberships (of any length) we will also adopt Kesi for a year! 

We're really glad we can help Monti have a better life now that she has been rescued.
Let me know if we should help adopt Kesi too!

Lol kind of funny about the similarity in names between one of the development staff, who is called Monty, and the baby orangutan, Monti. xD I think it is kind of cute in ways and Monty is amused about it too, himself. :P And now lets try to reach 250 Top Gold Bananas for the chance to adopt Kesi for 1 full year!! ^^

-Viper

Adoption Time!!

Now is exciting time MiniMonos' staff are going to adopt a baby orangutan thanks to the 50 memberships that were purchase by us monkeys on the Island! :D However, first the staff needs OUR help between two baby orangutan, Monti Or Kesi. So first check out the full post and vote, vote, vote!! ^.^

Hey Everymonkey! 

Remember how we said we'd adopt a baby orangutan for our whole MiniMonos community if we reached our First 50 Top Banana Gold memberships?

Well now is the time for us to choose who we want to adopt!

After doing some more research we have now decided to support Orangutan Outreach to adopt our baby, for the following reasons:

• Orangutan Outreach support lots of orangutan adoption organizations so we can find out heaps from them about what is happening around the world with orangutan rescues
• They like to keep the adoption process green by handling it all online.  No paper, no envelopes, no cardboard adoption certificate.  More money for the orangutans and less waste! 
• We will get updates about our adopted baby several times a year, with photos and maybe even a video!
• Orangutan Outreach give lots of information about what we can do to help save rainforests.  We want to talk with you more about that and what we can do!

So we have 2 gorgeous orangutan babies to choose from!  Although our donation goes to the chosen orangutan we want to adopt, it also gets shared with other orangutans in the nursery or forest school she belongs to.  We think that it's great that our donation is shared with our baby's adopted brothers and sisters!

Here are the 2 orangutans for us to decide on:
Monti
At only about 6 months old, Monti is the smallest orangutan of the dozen now living at the West Kalimantan rescue center in Ketapang, Indonesia.  She was brought to the center after an anonymous caller contacted the local Ketapang forestry officers and told them some rural people had found her all alone in the jungle, but the truth is something different. She wasn't 'found' in the jungle.  She was kidnapped!







Kesi

Kesi had her hand chopped off when plantation workers killed her mother with a machete. Now she is older, and the top pupil in Orangutan Forest School at Nyaru Menteng. Champion tree-climbing and nest-builder, Kesi is an excellent role model for newly arrived orphans.








So now it's time for us all to choose!

I'm having a hard time to decide since both are adorable and cuddly to me. And they each have their own hardship as an orphan too! However, whoever ends up getting adopted is still great and I'm sure the other one would have a chance of adoption by some other great people sooner or later too! :) So how about you monkeys?? Do yo know who you voting for, maybe comment below and you might even help me and others with our decisions. So explanations why you vote for one orangutan over the other one is greatly appreciated guys! ^.^

-Viper