Ultimately, Sinar Mas were accused of indulging in illegal deforestation that was pushing orangutans to extinction.
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This is, importantly, one of the last remaining refuges for orangutans in the wild.
Armed with information, they will be able to explain to you the plight of the orangutans.
Few species land on their heel: bears, humans and great apes -- chimps, gorillas, orangutans.
Hunters, disease and habitat loss are decimating our closest living relatives--chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos.
When the rescued orangutans first arrive, they are often in a sorry state and riddled with diseases.
Learn about the generations of orangutans who have passed through this camp, as well as other forest creatures.
Orangutans, by comparison, had fewer "vibration regimes" - meaning they could get fewer tones from their vocal cords.
The sanctuary is also home to other retired animal actors, including orangutans and monkeys as well as chimps.
Gorillas, orangutans, and other chimps live with him in the compound, and Caesar quickly becomes a leader of apes.
In Asia orangutans are being overrun by palm oil plantations and coffee farms.
This commodity is blamed for creating more greenhouse gases than it saves, and for destroying the rainforest habitat of orangutans.
Ashoka Fellows work on the hardest problems in society from human trafficking to medical waste to saving orangutans.
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Environmental groups are already decrying new and expanding palm oil plantations in Borneo that they say are destroying rain forests and threatening orangutans.
The center houses a number of different species including rescued hornbills, honey bears, gibbons and porcupines, but the main attraction is the Orangutans.
Plus, you should also not be surprised to see wild orangutans lurking on the riverbanks, or idly watching klotoks pass from the forest canopy.
On the way to Camp Leakey, two stops are made at feeding sites for rehabilitated and wild orangutans at Pondok Tanggui and Tanjung Harapan.
During a single afternoon, I saw several orangutans climb down trees and craft umbrella-like hats out of leaves when an intense rainstorm rolled in.
Home to orangutans, pygmy elephants and clouded leopards, this northeast region in the state of Sabah is a hotspot for rare and endangered species.
Most of the guides have been working in the forest for years and have insider information into each of the individual orangutans around the Camp Leakey site.
The researchers, along with other scientists across the world, are now working to sequence the complete genome of other close relatives to humans, including gorillas and orangutans.
However interesting all these features are, the best part of Camp Leakey is the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sit in a forest and share space with these semi-wild orangutans.
Orangutans were unknown entities when her studies commenced in 1971.
Initially set up to document orangutans in the wild, Camp Leakey served as a rehabilitation site for ex-captive orangutans, as the forests they were surrounded by started to dwindle.
Yayorin ( www.yayorin.org) is an Indonesian-based conservation project with the mammoth task of teaching its people about conserving the forest and its creatures, with the chief aim being saving existing populations of orangutans.
The feeding platform is not far into the jungle, where birds chatter, mosquitoes hum and cicadas buzz like chainsaws, and there is an expectant quiet as the guides call for the orangutans, who eventually come crashing through the forest.
Only a day after their study was published in the journal Nature, the UN's environment and biodiversity agencies warned that some of the great apes - chimps, gorillas, and orangutans - could be extinct in the wild within a human generation.
But in the meantime, I recommend the following website from Greenpeace which looks not only at Chernobyl but scores of other graphic and current biological crises throughout the world, including a story about the devastation in Sumatra, home to the last endemic sub-species of Orangutans.
During the quieter parts of the year (avoid August where increased numbers of tourists scatter the wildlife away from the river, and fruiting season drives the orangutans deep into the forest), you will not need to travel far before you see trees filled with proboscis monkeys.
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