Album Notes

These songs are my tribute to Orang Utan Republik Foundation - 100% of proceeds go directly to OURF. My sincere thanks to OURF's founder and president, Gary Shapiro, for all he has done to protect these precious primates.

I hope these songs will encourage you to become involved with OURF, and help them protect these beautiful creatures in danger of extinction. Every one of us can make a difference - and every penny of proceeds from this album goes directly to OURF and their work to protect orangutans in Indonesia.

About OURF
Founded in October 2004 as the Orang Utan Republik Education Initiative (OUREI), the mission of the Orang Utan Republik Foundation (OURF) has remained true to its founding principles; to save the orangutans of Indonesia through conservation education, outreach initiatives and innovative collaborative programs that inspire and call people to action.

The founders of OUREI and OURF have always believed that saving orangutan’s means saving their forest home, the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra, and that the protection of this habitat can only be ensured by the people of Indonesia and Malaysia.

Working under the ethos ‘Free to be Wild’, the vision of OURF, and OUREI before it, is a time when the people of Indonesia accept that orangutans, and all other species that inhabit their rainforests, have a right to live, and their forests can be shared and utilized sustainably, for the benefit of animals and people.

The problems facing orangutans are immense, but by educating local people about their plight, the importance of their tropical rainforests and by supporting sustainable development initiatives, OURF and its partners believe the orangutan and the great forests of Indonesia and Malaysia can survive.