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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: Orangutans Campaign Index
World Conservation Union (IUCN) raised the status of the Sumatran Orangutan to “critically endangered”, and the Bornean Orangutan to “endangered” from “vulnerable”. The Orangutan ... imperative is all the more urgent as two distinct species of Orangutan – the Sumatran and Bornean have now been recognised. Orangutans are disappearing due to the ...
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Great apes in the wild increasingly rare with habitat destruction, human encroachment
Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii) remains critically endangered. Listed as endangered are Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees ... of habitat necessary for orangutan survival in the wild. Though found in greater numbers, demand for their habitat is putting additional pressure on the Bornean Orangutan population, which ...
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GrungyApe - Language Studies
The Orangutan Think Tank can be seen live with on-line video via Discovery Channel OnLine. Featured articles also appear via the Smithsonian Magazine. Chantek, an adult male Bornean Orangutan, now living at Zoo Atlanta is skilled in over 150 American Signs. In an article written by H. Lyn White Miles, and passed into my possession via the Balikpapan Orangutan ...
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GrungyApe - Pongo pygmaeus abelii
Pongo pygmaeus abelii, the Sumatran Orangutan and Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus the Bornean Orangutan. Fossil evidence indicates that their past distribution included much of Southeast ... in repelling male rivals and in advertising their availability to sexually receptive females. Orangutan's posses long narrow hands and feet which are suitable for grasping branches. ...
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CHRONICLE There's a new member of the family at the Seneca Park Zoo. A Bornean orangutan was born on Wednesday night. -9/24/99-RochesterToday News Seneca Park Zoo has new ...
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FFI is working in West Kalimantan to protect precious orangutan habitat
Press releases Wildlife photography Print this page Send to a friend Saving BorneoÂ’s orangutan The orangutan is Asia's only great ape. Despite at one time having lived throughout ... The largest Bornean orangutan population is now found in the south-western part of Borneo. However, a recent wave of forest conversion, illegal logging and wildlife poaching has reduced fragile orangutan numbers ...
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Great Ape Trust’s Wich lead author of Oryx paper on continuing orangutan population declines
Bornean orangutans (P. pygmaeus) is probably also higher than the actual number today as there has been a 10 percent orangutan habitat loss in the ... rate, and suggest that recent reductions of Bornean orangutan populations have been far more severe than previously supposed.” The new numbers underscore important issues in orangutan conservation. With improved sharing of ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - The Last Stand of the Orangutan - Summary
Graphics The Environment Times Rapid Response Assessments The Last Stand of the Orangutan Table of contents | < Previous | Next > PrefaceSummaryOrangutans on the EdgeAn Irreplacable HabitatOrangutan Update: ... commercially viable amounts. The situation is now acute for both the Bornean orangutan and Sumatran orangutan. These species are classed as Endangered and Critically Endangered respectively by ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - The Last Stand of the Orangutan - Orangutans on the Edge
Bornean orangutans and only 7 300 Sumatran orangutans remaining in the wild (Caldecott & Miles 2005). The Bornean orangutan is classified as Endangered by ... least three subspecies of Bornean orangutans: Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus (northwest), Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii (central) and Pongo pygmaeus morio (northeast) (Figure 1). The central Bornean orangutan is the largest, followed ...
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San Diego Zoo Blogs » Blog Archive » New Age Orangutan Conservation
Orangutan Outreach, Richard Zimmerman, and his wife, Robin, to help raise awareness and funds directly contributing to orangutan conservation. Armed with some show-and-tell items, information pamphlets, and 50 plush orangutan ... , we decorated an elaborate booth filled with cute orangutan photos and canvas art pieces made by our resident Bornean orangutan, Janey. People were naturally drawn to our ...
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