Orangutan population declining faster than previously thought…
Category: Orangutans | Date: Jul 07 2008 | By: orangutanfoundation
A very quick post. I’m off to Tanjung Puting National Park and will be back on Thursday. At some point I’ll hopefully be tracked down by Brigitta who has her goody bag for the Orangutan Care Centre and Quarantine.
At the end of last week the scientific paper, “Distribution and conservation status of the orangutan (Pongo spp.) on Borneo and Sumatra: How many remain?” was published in Oryx – The International Journal of Conservation. Dr. Serge Wich, Togu Simorangkir from Yayorin (our Indonesian partner organisation) and other orangutan conservation experts, published new findings that reveal endangered wild orangutan (Pongo spp.) populations are declining more sharply in Sumatra and Borneo than previously estimated.
It isn’t all doom and gloom so have a read of the full press release from the Great Ape Trust website.
Many thanks.
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2 Responses to “Orangutan population declining faster than previously thought…”
sheryl, washington dc, on 07 Jul 2008
Interesting. I just blogged about a new report published in the journal “Nature” that indicates many species will be extinct much faster than projected. Take a look when you have a minute. Thanks for sharing the new report on orangs. Now, I’m really depressed.
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Annie, on 07 Jul 2008
Just as the gorillas…….this is such a scary thought……I am trying to think positively that these species will survive….some days it is hard to have faith in this world we all live in!
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