Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program News
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Banda Aceh -
Already decimated by illegal palm oil corporations, a proposed new spatial plan by the Aceh government would reduce total forest cover by about a quarter. The plan says conservation groups, could force 'charismatic species' into extinction.
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Banda Aceh -
A lone adult male orangutan was rescued from an isolated forest fragment in the Tripa Peat Swamp forest yesterday after local informants told conservation groups that palm oil companies planned to poison him.
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Jakarta -
Less than one week after a historic victory saw the Governor of Aceh finally revoke the license of an illegally operating palm oil company, a coalition of NGO’s claim that five more companies continue to destroy swamp areas inside Tripa, Indonesia.
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Nantes -
Major, believed to be the world's oldest reproductive orang-utan in captivity has died at a zoo in western France, aged 50.
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Medan -
After months of pushing Aceh governor Zaini Abdullah to investigate the illegal issuance of a palm oil permit to company PT Kallista Alam, an Indonesian court finally grants an appeal by conservation groups to cancel the permit.
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Banda Aceh -
In direct defiance of Indonesian National Law, conservation groups say palm oil companies are continuing to set the Tripa peat swamp forests ablaze, threatening the last 200 orangutans in a population that once numbered 2,000.
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Banda Aceh -
A global day of action from seven countries around the world asked Indonesian President SBY, to publicly side with international calls to enforce the law in the Tripa Peat Swamp Forest and take a stand against illegal forest destruction.
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Banda Aceh -
A conservation coalition has successfully confiscated a 2-year-old Sumatran orangutan named Rahul. The illegally-held orphaned orangutan was confiscated from a small village on the edge of the Tripa peat forest.
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Banda Aceh -
An emergency rescue team has successfully evacuated a large adult male orangutan trapped in a small pocket of forest in the Tripa peat swamps. The orangutan was in danger of starvation because of encroaching palm oil plantations.
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Paul Hilton; SOCP/YEL
Confiscated illegal pet orangutans being cared for by the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program team, join with people around the world calling on "President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to save their friends, save Tripa and to Enforce the Law", in Medan, 26 April 2012.
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