WWF's Heart of Borneo project is working to create one of the world's largest areas of protected forest, thereby ensuring the survival of the orang-utan and thousands of other plant and animal species. The forest is under threat from logging and palm oil plantations which provide the UK with unsustainable timber and other products. The value to mankind of Borneo's forests is immeasurable.


Funds generated from viewers votes will go towards a project that will contribute towards replanting 5,000 hectares of forest to provide food and shelter for orang-utans. The area will be a forest corridor between two National Parks and will provide a vital safe passage for orang-utans and other wildlife. The project will benefit the 3,000 orang-utans in the two parks.


Borneo is a centre of extraordinary biodiversity. The island is home to 221 mammal,
620 bird and some 15,000 plant species. They include the Sumatran rhino, clouded leopard, sun bear, pygmy elephant, proboscis monkey, gibbon, tarsier, slow loris and Rafflesia, one of the world's most unusual flowering plants. Borneo has the highest recorded tree diversity – 1,175 species in a 52-hectare plot (that's the size of 140 football pitches). Several thousand plant species are endemic, as are 44 mammal, 39 bird and 100 amphibian species.