In some areas orangutans are hunted for food. Orangutans that were confiscated from the illegal trade or as pets are being reintroduced to Bukit Tigapuluh National Park.
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All Rights Reserved. This species depends on high-quality forests. The group of three includes one male (Chio) and two females (Rizky and Mia), with ages ranging from 13-18 years. Indonesia, October 10th, 2020: We are delighted to announce that our very own Director of the SOCP, Dr Ian Singleton, is to be recognised as an «Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire» or OBE, for his Services to the Environment and Conservation, as announced earlier today with the publication of this […], Jantho, Sumatra, Indonesia – Wednesday, August 26, 2020, the Post Release Monitoring (PRM) team at the Orangutan Reintroduction Center, in the Jantho Pine Forest Nature Reserve, Aceh, Sumatra, found an orangutan mother along with her baby estimated to be 3-5 months old on the FB1200 trail. Females give birth to just one infant at a time every eight or nine years, making their populations very susceptible to even very low levels of hunting. Working closely with local and international partners, we are working to prevent and mitigate threats to the species and to strengthen protection of orangutan habitat. With 104,700 individuals left in the wild, it’s listed as endangered. These three orangutans will depart today from Nyaru Menteng and head directly to the Hiran watershed in a journey estimated to take around 19 hours. If orangutans were to disappear, so would several tree species, especially those with larger seeds. The forests are also a valuable source for wildlife products like honey and rattan. Orangutan habitat in north Sumatra is being lost at an extremely high rate, mainly due to fire and conversion of forests to oil palm plantations and other agricultural development.
On this occasion, we support the preservation of the Bornean orangutan which, despite having a very important role in maintaining the quality of forests and the integrity of the ecosystem and being protected by law, remains ‘critically endangered’.
“It is very important to us to start the new year with a positive spirit. **************************************************, Head of Public Relations Bureau of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. Population.
We helped develop a spatial plan based on Sumatra’s ecosystem to conserve the last stands of forests on the island. Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests, View our inclusive approach to conservation, Orangutans in Sumatra learn to live in the wild. We greatly appreciate the involvement of other stakeholders in this intensive release effort. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to promote and demonstrate democratic values and advance a free, peaceful and prosperous world. The SOCP works on all aspects of conservation of the Critically Endangered Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) and Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis). The Hiran watershed area – located within the national park – has been utilised for orangutan releases since August 2019. Andi Muhammad Kadhafi, SHut., Msi., Acting Head of the Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), said: “As a representative for the Indonesian government on the issues of wildlife and natural resources protection, the Central Kalimantan BKSDA is responsible for all efforts to save, rehabilitate, and release orangutans.
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Only three populations contain more than 1,000 orangutans. [PRESS RELEASE] First Release of 2020: Three Orangutans Return to their Natural Habitat in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park, BOSF - Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. This unprotected forest provides crucial habitat for the Sumatran orangutan, as well as numerous other species.
Of the nine existing populations of Sumatran orangutans, only seven have prospects of long-term viability, each with an estimated 250 or more individuals. These populations act as a ’safety net’ or ’backup’, should a catastrophe befall the remaining truly wild populations». WWF supports the Indonesian government’s 2009 commitment to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 26% by 2020, and up to 41% with external aid.
SSMS Tbk., as well as like-minded conservation organisations (including but not limited to Orangutan Outreach and The Orangutan Project) and individual supporters from around the world, all of which contribute significantly to our work and conservation efforts in Indonesia. This has been attributed to mass fruit on fig trees, where groups of Sumatran orangutans can come together to feed.
The SOCP collaborates with the Indonesian Government’s Conservation Authorities (Ditjen KSDAE) to locate and confiscate orangutans kept illegally as pets and to assist them in prosecuting actors involved in the illegal trade of orangutans. The name orangutan means "man of the forest" in the Malay language. The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) is a collaborative initiative between the Indonesia-based NGO the Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari (YEL; Sustainable Ecosystem Foundation), Swiss-based NGO the PanEco Foundation, and the Indonesian Government’s Directorate General of Natural Resource and Ecosystem Conservation.
One of these pre-release islands lies in the Salat Island cluster in Pulang Pisau Regency, Central Kalimantan. We also collaborate with various partners to protect forests in the Bukit Tigapuluh landscape, an import… A guide was developed that identifies management practices that will benefit conservation and industry.
Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan, 15 January 2019.
Females virtually never travel on the ground and adult males do so rarely. Rescued orangutans learn how to feed and fend for themselves in the lowland rainforests of central Sumatra—skills they never had the chance to pick up from their mothers. We use our expertise to help the government protect the forests and achieve emission reductions.
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The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) is the only project actively establishing entirely new, genetically viable and self-sustaining wild populations of any great ape species, anywhere in the world. The Scientific consensus is that orangutans and the other great apes should be just as susceptible to infection by the coronavirus as humans are.
Experts estimate that even as little as 1% of females lost each year through hunting or other unnatural causes could put a population on an irreversible trajectory to extinction. Make a symbolic orangutan adoption to help save some of the world's most endangered animals from extinction and support WWF's conservation efforts. Once deemed mature enough and fit for returning to the wild, orangutans are transferred in groups to one of our Reintroduction Centres. Since 2012, the BOS Foundation has released 463 orangutans (466 after today’s release) into two release sites in Central Kalimantan (Bukit Batikap Protection Forest, and Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park) and one in East Kalimantan (Kehje Sewen Forest).
Bunga Sedap Malam IX, No. The value of these new wild populations has never been more evident. We desperately need support from both the Government of Indonesia and the private sector to achieve this.”. WWF works with Indonesian non-governmental organizations to mitigate human-orangutan conflict in and around palm oil plantations.