News

BBC, 27 December 2011

Palm oil threat to Indonesia's orangutans

Eight-month-old baby orangutan Elaine would have never survived without her carer Rosa.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16336582

The Observer, 27 November 2011

Fresh wave of killings by hunters takes Indonesian orangutan to the brink of extinction

Conservationists urge authorities to take action as report finds great ape population of Kalimantan region gravely endangered

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/27/orangutan-indonesia-endangered-species

UNEP News Centre, 28 September 2011

Why Investing in Forests is Win-Win for Communities, Climate and Orangutan Conservation 

Conserving key rainforests in Indonesia could generate revenues three times greater than felling them for palm oil plantations.
http://www.unep.org/newscentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=2653&ArticleID=8877

Greenpeace

How Sinar Mas is pulping the planet

 

Progress report on Environmental Education Center in Sungai Terantang [pdf]

 

BBC News 27 January 2011

Draft sequence of orangutan genome released
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12286281

New rare orangutan find in Borneo

A group of about 1-2,000 orangutans has been discovered on the south-east Asian island of Borneo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7995970.stm