Leif Cocks is the founder and president of The Orangutan Project, a not-for-profit, non-partisan organisation that works toward the protection of orangutans in Indonesia. He tells us here about his life’s work, the issues facing the people and animals of Indonesia, and how we can get involved to help save this amazing species from extinction.
Leif Cocks is the founder and president of The Orangutan Project, a not-for-profit, non-partisan organisation that works toward the protection of orangutans in Indonesia. He tells us here about his life’s work, the issues facing the people and animals of Indonesia, and how we can get involved to help save this amazing species from extinction.
Leif states that "I’ve been working with orangutans for 27 years; rescuing them, raising their babies, reintroducing them back in to the wild, and tracking them".
Leif also commented on how the general public can help his cause "One, to like us on Facebook, so that when we do petitions to highlight criminal activities that are happening, there is international public pressure. This makes people nervous about continuing their activities.Secondly, we ask people to donate, or adopt an orangutan so that we have money to take companies to court and set up our wildlife protection units.It all comes down to those two things – having the public support base so that we can shed light on the issue, and having the funds to undertake the work to make real change on the ground".