Proboscis Monkey Blog

Jan van der Meer is a wildlife photographer travelling now in Borneo with his wife. He is shooting stunning images like this one!

Ph. copyright: Jan van der Meer 2006
www.orang-belanda.hyves.nl

I am a retired Anthropologist whose has started working with people in Borneo to preserve what is left of the natural and semi-natural habitat, etc. Borneo has created 10 Forest Management Units, but the details of the administration of those units is currently being considered. They are, along with the National parks and preserves, the Proboscis Monkey’s best chance for survival. If you would like to learn more about the Proboscis Monkey there are two books that I know of and both of them are for sale at Borneo Books which has its own website. The owner, is a retired Biologist whose speciality is upper-canopy environments.

Hi everybody!

this is the ProboscisMonkey.org BLOG: this is our modern agora, the “Piazza” where we can meet and share ideas…just comments of u want. But there’s no much time to talk, we must THINK QUICK, our Proboscis Monkeys are disappearing fast, the number of them is now a few thousands, and I underline they can only live in Borneo, and they dye of depression if put in zoos. They can’t be fed properly, too.

We need a sponsor: a famous actress, actor, pop star who can be our “patron” and give money and help, or just talk on a tv show about the monkeys…or just put on a tshirt during a concert.

People don’t follow me or you, follow pop stars and movie or tv celebs.

Scientists dears stay with us too, don’t stay in your world apart. I want a micro world of “us”: the people fashinated by Proboscis Monkeys. A little “utopia” on the Net, with people with good mind and heart and passionate about our aim.

Also, in this blog I’ll put the nice letters I received from elementary school children, who want to help too.

Let’s think together, let’s think fast.

Maybe you are a Rolling Stone’s relative (to make an example) or a multinational’s manager, maybe you know somebody who knows the personal email of somedody who can boost this project. A football player…..anybody popular.

This is not being superficial, understand me, it’s marketing!

We have to advertise the animal, it ’s still too unknown. This makes me so sad: to dye in silence, our Orang Belanda are disappearing and billions of people just won’t notice!

Extinction means death forever. And what is worse, is that I’m starting to think that we deserve it, as human beings, we deserve to loose the beautiful creatures of the Planet, which is not “our” Planet. Is all creature’s Planet. Rethoric, but true.

Kristina