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Conservation group: Bornean orangutan critically endangered
2016-07-08 06:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A global conservation group says Borneo's orangutans are now a critically endangered species due to hunting and destruction of forest habitat. The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates the number of Bornean orangutans has dropped by nearly two-thirds since the early 1970s and will further decline to 47,000 animals by 2025. The group said the projected population figure would represent a population loss of 86 percent. The assessment for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species...
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Baby orangutan poachers get 2.5 years in Sumatra
2016-03-25 05:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Three wildlife traffickers who were caught in November with as many baby Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) were sentenced to between two and two-and-a-half years behind bars this week by a court in Indonesias Riau province. To capture a baby orangutan, hunters usually kill the mother, said Herry Susilo, head of the Indonesian Orangutan Forum (FORINA). Wildlife crimes in Riau are usually met with sentences of just one year, so Susilo and others praised the ruling, even as they called for harsher...
Indonesia's forest fires threaten orangutan habitat video
2015-10-07 12:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Shocking drone footage captured by Greenpeace field researchers shows extensive peat and forest fires burning in Indonesia. Greenpeaces footage was shot around the edge of the Gunung Palung national park, a major reservoir of biodiversity in Indonesia. It shows fires burning in the deep peat surrounding the national park and in nearby palm oil concessions the result of decades of illegal logging and deforestation for oil palm and pulp plantations
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Wilmar to investigate palm oil company destroying orangutan forest
2014-06-24 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A Wilmar supplier is allegedly destroying orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, potentially putting it in breach of the plantation giant's zero deforestation policy, reports Greenomics. According to analysis of satellite data by Greenomics, PT Sumatera Jaya Agro Lestari (SJAL) has cleared an area of forest that is classified as orangutan habitat. Greenomics says the clearing has occurred since Wilmar's zero deforestation commitment went into effect. The allegations are corroborated by Global...
Indonesia: The Last Stand of the Sumatran Orangutan
2013-04-18 03:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: This is the first blog post I`ve written for RAN. I`m the new senior agribusiness campaigner and I was hired because RAN believes that it is more urgent than ever that we take our palm oil work to the next level. I`m writing this post to lay out the next phase of our campaign to stop the destruction of Indonesias rainforests for palm oil. I want to bring each and every one of you reading this on board right from the beginning. We have reached the last stand for Sumatran orangutans, but its...
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