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Orangutan forest school in Indonesia takes on its first eight students
posted in 27 Jun 2018
A team of scientists and caretakers aim to give orphaned orangutan a chance to return to the wild.
BY JIM TAN // Mongabay Series: Great Apes
Orangutans in crisis
Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) are classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List. A recent study published in Current Biology estimates that over 100,000 orangutans have been lost across Borneo between 1999 and 2015. The remaining orangutans exist in a number of geographically isolated groups known as “metapopulations,” and the study found that only 38 of the 64 Bornean metapopulations have more than 100 individuals — the threshold that scientists estimate is required for a viable population.
In Borneo, the orangutans’ natural forest habitat is disappearing at an alarming rate. Between 1973 and 2016, 30 percent of the island’s old-growth forest was converted to farmland for crops such as oil palm or lost as a result of forest fires — 195,000 square kilometers (75,300 square miles). “There is no land planning,” Preuschoft said, “only land grabbing.”
But the study also found large declines in orangutan numbers within the remaining forest, indicating that habitat loss is not the only threat. Hunting for bushmeat, the illegal pet trade and human-wildlife conflict over resources — plantation workers killing orangutans to protect their crops, for example — are all also important drivers of orangutan declines, according to the study’s lead author, Maria Voigt.
(To be continued…)
Read the full article in Mongabay.com
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posted in 24 Apr 2024
Katai and Sansão: orangutans in captivity in Brazil
Meet the beautiful Katai! The female orangutan was born in 1985 in a German zoo and is a Sumatra/Borneo hybrid. Since 2010, she has been one of the residents of the Anami Institute's Great Apes Sanctuary, in Paraná.
Date of birth: 02/07/1985Origin: Germany
Sanctuary: São José dos Pinhais, Paraná/Brazil
posted in 03 Apr 2024
Children snatched away by the circus
Lucy is a docile female and very zealous with her children. During her life in the circus, she had several puppies, but no opportunity to raise them, as they were taken from her the same day they were born. With her arrival at Anami, this reality changed. Lucy can raise Noel, her youngest son.
Date of birth: 1981Origin: Circus
Sanctuary: São José dos Pinhais, Paraná/Brazil
posted in 29 Nov 2023
In memory of Johny - 05/20/2000 - 11/29/2014
in memoriam
Born in a zoo on May 20, 2000, Johny was rejected by his mother. At five months old, he was received by the Starostik couple, living with them in their house until he was one year old, as he needed special care, such as a bottle every two hours.
Date of birth: 05/20/2000Origin: Zoo
Sanctuary: São José dos Pinhais, Paraná/Brazil
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