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Little Mason is a one-year old male orangutan found at the Forestry Department on our way to Lamandau, a 300 square mile nature reserve that exists because Dr. Galdikas and Dr. Briggs asked officials in the Indonesian government to create this Reserve to help save the forest approximately ten years ago. The government generously agreed. Lamandau is closed to both visitors and local inhabitants. Dr. Galdikas was on her way to the two orangutan feeding stations in the Lamandau Reserve on 7/11/09 when she spotted the small orangutan.
This little one was sitting in his cage, eating crackers proffered by one of the Forestry Department officials. He had lost his mother the day before. Dr. Galdikas said that that he was another victim of the palm oil industry. Palm oil plantation owners often pay a bounty for the hand or head of an orangutans who, having lost their forest homes, have nowhere to go but into the palm fields. Dr. Galdikas named the baby "Little Mason."
Dr. Galdikas then rescued Little Mason and took him to the OFI Care Center. He is first pictured in the cage where he was found and then he is in the gentle arms
of a kind and experienced OFI assistant. Little Mason is on your left and already doing much better.
Please adopt him and help Little Mason make his way back to the forest when he is ready in a few years...and help other orangutan orphans like him.
OFI is in the business of saving precious orangutan lives. Your support is appreciated. $75 per adoption.
For a $75 contribution, you will receive a foster parent kit which includes a photograph of your adoptee, a certificate, an orangutan activity booklet, stickers, a current issue of Pongo Quest, and other items. You will also receive newsletters which include information on the work that OFI is doing in Borneo.
The care of each infant costs approximately $2,000 a year and OFI's Care Center receives dozens of new babies every year. Your $75 covers the cost of feeding Mason for one month. In the beginning, each infant must be cared for 24 hours a day. Veterinarians and nurses conduct check-ups and attend to urgent medical problems. Medicines, vitamins, and quality food are needed. OFI's Orangutan Foster Parent Program helps ensure that funds are available for all this critically needed care. You may choose to support a specific orphaned infant or juvenile; however, because of how our program is organized, all the youngsters in our care benefit from your support. No orangutan in need is ever turned away.
(If this item is a gift, please use the separate billing address and message box on the order form to give us as much information as possible)
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