Ned’s Keeper

After posting yesterday, I continued to look around on TED Talks and I came across another extremely interesting video about someone trying to save my dear darling Ned and his family. I felt like I was meeting Ned’s other keeper! It was an incredible story of passion and innovation in the spirit of conservation! Better yet, it was all about trees (Green 180)and we know that is what I am all about right now, so I found it even that much more interesting. When you have about 20 minutes, come back and check it out.

Last year, Cindy Wallace (another DEN STAR from LA) and I stayed up all night researching and creating an online seek and find on google earth for a Orangutan Sanctuary near Borneo. I had purchased an Orangutan from the Discovery store earlier in the week and we decided to do a fun little project with it. (Of course, the orangutan had to have a name, so I named him NED after the DEN.) We researched about the animal and about it’s natural habitat. I learned alot about that area in that one night and have honestly spent the last year building on that knowledge. So you can understand why I was so excited to see this video about the things that Willie Smits and the Indonesian locals are doing to really improve the environment not only for themselves, but for the local animals as well… especially NED. Check out the video: