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Two Great Ape Trust scientists visiting orangutans in Sumatra
Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii). Only an estimated 6,700 Sumatran orangutans – 900 fewer than the last official estimate of the ... with, funded in part by the Sumatran Orangutan Conservancy Programme, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Great Ape Trust, involves how orangutans react to selective logging and how ...
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Great Ape Trust scientist writes natural history of ‘patient and clever’ orangutans
SEARCH Great Ape Trust scientist writes natural history of ‘patient and clever’ orangutans Book seeks to increase understanding of orangutans as sentient beings Des ... conservation by increasing awareness and understanding of orangutans as sentient beings. “Unless the present conditions are substantially changed, Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) are predicted to be ...
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Peat Swamp Project
Precious swamp forests threatened by palm oil industry "How palm-oil plantations (...) increase disaster risk, contribute to climate change and drive a unique Sumatran orangutan population ... of orangutans in the world and about 30% of the remaining 6,500 critically endangered Sumatran orangutans. Other flagship species live there too, such as the white-handed Gibbon, Sumatran ...
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Nature Conservation
The roots of PanEco lie in the reintroduction of caged or domesticated orangutans into the wild. The basic reason they are endangered is, however, ... orangutans themselves, but also their home: The tropical rainforests of Indonesia. Orangutan Conservation Programme Everything started from there: To save the Sumatran orangutans from extinction. PanEco and our local partner YEL reintroduce orangutans ...
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A hybrid? Or a new species of ape?
Borneo and Sumatran orangutans. Such pairings "can throw a monkey wrench in our idea of species," Louis said. Louis ...
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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 ... Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) are only found in Indonesia, and Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) only in Indonesia and Malaysia, with occasional males reported as wandering into Brunei Darussalam. The Bornean and Sumatran ...
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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: Orangutans Campaign Index
Orangutans for the pet trade continues. The conservation 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 destruction of their forest habitat. Even protected areas - the last strongholds with viable populations of Orangutans ...
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Baby orang-utan born by caesarian
Jersey Zoo on Thursday. Sumatran orang-utan Gina needed an emergency caesarean after staff found the placenta was blocking her ...
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WWF - Sumatran Islands Lowland and Montane Forests - A Global Ecoregion
Sumatran tigers, Sumatran rhinoceroses (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), Malaysian Tapirs (Tapirus indicus), and Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) - barely surviving in the rapidly dwindling ... as the Tiger (Panthera tigris), Asian elephant, Malaysian tapir, Orangutan, and the Sumatran rhino. Orangutans may weigh as much as 90 kg, and they spend most of ...
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WWF - Orangutans
Orangutans Great Apes Chimpanzees Gorillas Bonobo Orangutans Ecology & Habitat Population & Distribution Threats Sumatran orangutan Ecology & Habitat Population & Distribution Threats Borneo orangutan Ecology & Habitat Population & Distribution Threats Orangutans ...
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