About Orangutans. The name “orangutan” literally translates into English as “person of the forest”. It comes from Malay and Bahasa Indonesian orang (person) and hutan (forest). Orangutans are extremely intelligent creatures who clearly have the ability to reason and think.
A century ago, orangutans lived in forests all across south-east Asia – from southern China to the Indonesian island of Java. Today they’re only found on two islands: Sumatra and Borneo. As the orangutans’ forests have disappeared, so have their numbers – cut by around half in just the last 60 years.
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So one of the problems is the forest is cut down for oil palm, or palm oil plantations, and that takes away the home from the orangutans and other species as well. There's a great risk they're ...
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How you can help. Adopt an orang-utan via WWF-UK or WWF-US and support our work to protect orangutans; Buy sustainable wood, paper and palm oil.By purchasing certified sustainable palm oil and FSC-certified forest products, consumers, retailers, traders, and manufacturers help protect orang-utan habitat by limiting illegal logging and forest conversion to oil palm plantations.
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(10 Dec 2016) LEAD IN: Conservationists say tourism is one way of helping to save the critically endangered orangutans on the Indonesian island of Borneo. Land clearing and poaching have left Asia ...
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Humans’ closest cousins may be extinct in ten years EXCLUSIVE: Sue Sheward, Brit gran known as Godmother of Orangutans, tells of heartbreaking plight of Borneo primates EXCLUSIVE by JENNIFER ...
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Greening the world with palm oil? ... the tree before it produces any oil seeds. Viewing the wild orangutans as pests, plantation managers started paying $10 to $20 for each dead orangutan — a ...
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AN ORPHANED orangutan who was illegally taken from her mother in the wild has found a new home at a pre-school set up for rescued orangutans. Named Joss by keepers, the tiny female was ...
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How does palm oil production effect orangutans? ... In 2016, it was reported that just 45,000 orangutans remained in Borneo and at this rate, they will be extinct in the wild in just 25 years. In ...
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One expert estimates that orangutans have just 10 years before becoming extinct if we continue our palm oil production practices.
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The establishment of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)in 2004 set up voluntary guidelines for “greener” palm oil production and has tried to encourage palm oil expansion in a “sustainable” way that doesn’t ruin primary rain forests or violate the
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In the last 20 years, over 3.5 million hectares of Indonesian and Malaysian forest have been destroyed to make way for palm oil. Almost 80% of orangutan habitat has disappeared in the last 20 years. We are losing over 6,000 orangutans a year. There are now only 400 Sumatran tigers left in the world.
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Extinction in the wild is likely in the next 10 years for Sumatran orangutans and soon after for Bornean habitats are disappearing at an alarming rate due to deforestation and clearing of the land for pulp paper and palm oil For the first 4-6 years of his/her life, an infant orangutan holds tight to his/her mother's body as
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About Orangutans. The name “orangutan” literally translates into English as “person of the forest”. It comes from Malay and Bahasa Indonesian orang (person) and hutan (forest). Orangutans are extremely intelligent creatures who clearly have the ability to reason and think.
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Just over 40 years ago rescued orangutans released here in Borneo learnt to use soap by watching local people washing in the river. This learnt behaviour has now spread to these wild orangutans
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Orangutan ~ Please don't buy products with palm oil in the ingredients. These orangutans and their habitat are being wiped out by folks who want their palm oil trees for commercial production, not to keep these noble animals alive! Thats about how stupid you look
Get PricePalm oil has emerged as a major source of controversy after a Christmas advert by supermarket chain Iceland was deemed too political by regulators. The advert, originally created by Greenpeace
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A century ago, orangutans lived in forests all across south-east Asia from southern China to the Indonesian island of Java. Today they’re only found on two islands: Sumatra and Borneo. As the orangutans’ forests have disappeared, so have their numbers cut by around half in just the last 60 years.
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Palm oil plays a decisive role in the lives of almost everyone of us. Being a low-cost resource, palm oil is in great demand and is contained in virtually everything. You can find it in foods ranging from frozen pizza to chocolate bars, in laundry detergents and cleaning agents, in cosmetics, in diesel fuel tanks and in combined heat and power plants.
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Greening the world with palm oil? destroying the tree before it produces any oil seeds. Viewing the wild orangutans as pests, Palm oil could help make Papuans a minority in their own land.
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Borneo conservationists and top oil palm firm work to help an estimated 25 million people were living off of oil palm cultivation in where they could see orangutans living in the wild.
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30-5-2007· Orangutans will be Extinct within 5 years. warned that at the current rate of deforestation by the palm oil industry, orang utans in the wild could be I just dont see the reason to spam
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He was rescued together with two other orangutans, Zazu and Fortune, who have since been released to the wild. Semilar was kept as a pet for about two months by a palm-oil plantation worker in Semilar Village, East Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan, where he was locked inside a tiny wooden crate at the front of the worker’s residence.
Get PriceQuote Taken from COP (Centre For Orangutan Protection) "Orangutans’ poaching is done deliberately as a policy made by palm oil corporations. Therefore they hire local people as pest busters, who serve the corporation with killing any wild animals, including orangutans, which spoil palm oil
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It just blows the chimpanzee right off the block.” Orangutans just have this tenacity. They are motivated to focus on the problem until they solve it. They stick with it. A few years ago the oil palm industry boomed. 6 more orangutans released back to the wild! Mother and Baby Rescued [PRESS
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Protecting Jungles: One Way to Combat Global Warming. Time: ANDREW MARSHALL / ULU MASEN Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. There are two important things to know about tracking wild elephants, and it’s better to learn both of them before you’re actually in the jungle, tracking wild elephants.
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I do have a heart though and it's breaking knowing simple greed and penny pinching is the reason tens of thousands of orangutans and sumatran and findings show that if nothing changes species like the orangutan could become extinct in the wild within the next 5-10 years, Stop Using Non-Sustainable Palm Oil”. Join Megan and 25,063
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Michelle Desilets is Executive Director of the Orangutan Land Trust, an organisation that seeks to ensure the long-term survival of orangutans in the wild by securing remaining habitat. She is a key player in the campaign for sustainable palm oil.
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Sophie the Bornean Orangutan holding her baby. Please BOYCOTT Palm Oil and Palm Oil derivatives to HELP SAVE the Orangutans from extinction. 69 Trendy Ideas For Baby Animals Cuddling Mothers Love Sophie the Bornean Orangutan holding her baby. Baby looks so sweet and content asleep in Mama's arms. She must be a good Mama. Say NO to Palm Oil.
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Over the past two decades, tens of thousands of wild orangutans have been killed, maimed or orphaned as a direct result of the palm oil industry. Experts estimate that the primate could be extinct in the wild in 25 years or less if current rates of loss continue.
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We investigated why orangutans are being killed in Kalimantan, Indonesia, and the role of conflict in these killings. Based on an analysis of interview data from over 5,000 respondents in over 450 villages, we also assessed the socio-ecological factors associated with conflict and non-conflict killings. Most respondents never kill orangutans.
Get PriceIt’s Not Just Conflict That Motivates Killing of Orangutans. Most respondents never kill orangutans. governments have established several rescue units to assist in cases where orangutans cause conflicts with farmers and oil palm plantations in both Sumatra and Borneo.
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World Orangutan Day: conservationists call for an end to habitat has rescued six orangutans from oil palm and rubber plantations and confiscated two others who were being held The researchers used high-resolution laser remote sensing coupled with visual observations of wild orangutans to map canopy structure and quantify
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Borneo conservationists and top oil palm firm work to help orangutans By 2011, an estimated 25 million people were living off of oil palm cultivation in Indonesia alone, where they could see orangutans living in the wild.
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Hundreds of orangutans killed in north Indonesian forest fires deliberately started by palm oil years away, but just a few months as Indonesian palm oil workers moved in for the kill.
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Orangutans Fight for Survival as Thirst for Palm Oil Devastates Rainforests. are facing extinction as their habitats become more and more fragmented and agricultural production of things like palm oil expands. others think it could happen in a few hundred years. Orangutans share 96.4% of their genes with humans.
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