Some of Australia’s top musicians and creatives have come together to highlight the plight of orangutans and the rapidly disappearing forest in which they live.

Musician Sallie Campbell has developed an arts project to raise awareness of the impact Unsustainable Palm Oil is having on the world’s orangutan population.

“The situation is urgent, it's right now, the last wild orangutans on the earth live in Malaysia and Indonesia and their habitat is being threatened by the development of Palm Oil Plantations.

“Unsustainable Palm Oil is in 50% of supermarket items and if people knew the food and products they were consuming everyday were wiping out forests and all the beautiful creatures there, they wouldn't buy them”

“As consumers we can do so much. We must demand proper labelling on palm oil products and tell companies that use unsustainable palm oil that we won't buy them until they change to a sustainable source, Palm Oil Investigations are currently developing a free Palm Oil Scanner for Smart Phone and this will be such a powerful tool”

A composer and multi-instrumentalist, Ms Campbell drew support and assistance for the project from peers and friends including Kate Miller-Heidke, whose ethereal vocals feature in the song.

One of Australia’s brightest new film talents, actor Sarah Snook (Predestination, Not Suitable For Children, Sisters Of War) stars in the clip. Writer and director David Barker created the song film clip, Daniel Denholm (Australian Chamber Orchestra, Powderfinger, Whitlams) recorded and produced the track, featured soloist composer/multi-instrumentalist John Rodgers, and Visual Artist Velvet Pesu, who created the instrumental clip round out the all star team.

Mr Barker (also currently working with Aquarius Films and Snook on a forthcoming feature film) said while the clip represents the theme of ‘breaking free from cages within our hearts’, it also symbolises how a shift in perception can provide hope for the orangutans.

“The natural wonder, which draws the protagonist forward in the video, is analogous to the orangutan,” Mr Barker said.

“We want people to believe in the idea of natural wonders; we want to create a sense of hope, while at the same time creating an emotive artistic statement that people will want to purchase.”

It draws it's name from the "Nightingale Floors" found in ancient Japanese castles. These floors were cleverly built to creak and sing when walked upon. This warned of intruders. Similarly, we need to be the ‘new nightingales’ who signal danger to our fragile ecology.

Nightingale Floor, dedicated to the original ‘people of the forest’ is a 20 minute piece written for an 11-piece string section, features three soloists and exotic folk instruments including Nyckelharpa, Baritone Bowed Psaltry, Hammered Dulcimer and 5 string violin.

People can visit www.nightingalefloor.com.au educate themselves on Palm Oil and donate and download either the full piece, the song film clip or the instrumental clip and all fund raised by sales of the piece go straight to Orangutan Lands Trust.

Ms Campbell said the single, most important thing people could do to save the orangutan was to insist that the palm oil used in products was produced in a sustainable way, and not at the expense of orangutans and their habitat.