Forgive me for interjecting this in and amongst Katrina posts, but this is extremely upsetting to me.
Some of the great apes - chimps, gorillas, and orangutans - could be extinct in the wild within a human generation, a new assessment concludes . . . Human settlement, logging, mining and disease mean that orangutans in parts of Indonesia may lose half of their habitat within five years.
In addition to donating to the hurricane relief effort, I urge you to take a moment to consider contributing to GRASP, a UN effort to preserve great ape populations in the wild. Go here.