Hi,

Hi,

Have you heard about Opal the orangutan who has spent her life alone and miserable in a cage at the Natal Zoological Gardens in South Africa? Each day she is released from her sleeping cage into her daytime cell. There on a meagre patch of grass with a makeshift "Jungle Gym" of poles, she spends every day of her life. Alone. Alone but for the people who come to stare.

A primate sanctuary in the United Kingdom has said that they would welcome Opal with open arms, but Brian Boswell, the owner of the Natal Zoo has refused to give her up.

I just signed a Care2 petition to urge Boswell to release Opal so that she can have the happy life she deserves.