As part of our studies of Sustainability and Asia, the Year 2s have been learning about orangutans tigers.

We have adopted an orangutan named Bunga. This mean the money we donated goes to the Orangutan Emergency Centre in West Kalimantan in Indonesia. They help to rescue and care for orangutans who have been orphaned or displaced by the destruction of their forest.

We have also adopted a tiger. Her name is Kamrita. Our donation goes to the World Wide Fund (WWF), supporting their essential conservation work – protecting the habitat, preserving the food and ensuring the safety of threatened species globally.

We get to take a toy Bunga and Kamita home and write about our adventures with them in our class journal. It’s a lot of fun sharing them with our families.

We read newspaper articles and reports online about the threats to the species. Logging often leads to destroying their natural habitat.

Large areas of forest are being cleared away for palm oil plantations. Every hour 300 football fields of forest is destroyed to make way for these plantations. This means that we are losing over 6,000 orangutans a year.

Students have learned about buying products in the supermarket that do not contain palm oil. Products that have clearly labelled oils like corn oil, olive oil and 100% sunflower oil are good alternatives.

.