Initial reaction: heartbreak. The intensity of the connection you feel staring into the eyes of an orangutan is vastly underestimated. Visiting Km 38, a facility with 18 caged orangutans was an experience not quickly, nor easily, forgotten. The NGO Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) built most of km 38 in response to the 1997/1998 forest [...]
The 20 of us, 18 Quest University students and Ethical Expeditions leaders Brent Loken and Sheryl Gruber, have been in Balikpapan for almost a week now and are beginning to adjust to the hectic city traffic and life as a spectacle. Our first week has been full of meetings and presentations from incredible people doing [...]
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RYSE is the youth branch of RAN, Rainforest Action Network, which works to protect the Earth and support human rights through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
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