Square Pie is a supporter of the Orangutan Foundation and makes a donation of 5% of sales of our potato, leek and cheese pies to the foundation (about 15p a pie). This is because we have been told that this what primates might like in a pie!

So far we have raised over £900 for the foundation, not quite the Pizza Express Venice appeal but we’ll get there.

www.orangutan.org.uk

The mission of the Orangutan Foundation International is to support the conservation and understanding of the orangutan and its rain forest habitat while caring for ex-captive individuals as they make their way back to the forest.

Furthermore, OFI promotes the dissemination of information about the orangutan and its plight in order to galvanize the public and policy-makers towards an appreciation of the ape's value and current dilemma so that it might be saved from extinction.

For more information about how you can donate money to this great cause or maybe help in other ways please click here or call Lisa or Ashley direct on 020 77242912.

A bit about the orangutans
Orangutans are in grave danger of extinction because their rainforest habitat is vanishing at an unprecedented rate. Palm oil plantations, illegal logging and gold mining within protected areas have contributed to the loss of 80% of orangutan habitat in the past twenty years. Orangutan populations have declined by 50% in the last decade. At this rate of destruction, the orangutan could be extinct in the wild in the next ten years.

A million years ago, orangutans lived throughout much of Southeast Asia. Today they are found only in relic populations on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. In 1900, there were approximately 315,000 orangutans. Today there are probably less than 20,000.

The Orangutan Foundation actively conserves the orangutan and its habitat whilst conducting long-term research on the ecology of orangutans and other rainforest fauna and flora within their habitat. Foundation objectives are to support conservation work in Indonesia and Malaysia and educate the public about the orangutan and its habitat, to save this great ape from extinction. Through a multi-stranded approach to conservation, the Orangutan Foundation has achieved significant victories in the urgent battle to save this vulnerable species.