| Not by science alone: why orangutan conservationists must think outside the box. | |
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PMID: 22175247 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Orangutan survival is threatened by habitat loss and illegal killing. Most wild populations will disappear over the next few decades unless threats are abated. Saving orangutans is ultimately in the hands of the governments and people of Indonesia and Malaysia, which need to ensure that habitats of viable orangutan populations are protected from deforestation and well managed to ensure no hunting takes place. Companies working in orangutan habitat also have to play a much bigger role in habitat management. Although the major problems and the direct actions required to solve them-reducing forest loss and hunting-have been known for decades, orangutan populations continue to decline. Orangutan populations in Sumatra and Borneo have declined by between 2,280 and 5,250 orangutans annually over the past 25 years. As the total current population for the two species is some 60,000 animals in an area of about 90,000 km(2) , there is not much time left to make conservation efforts truly effective. Our review discusses what has and has not worked in conservation to guide future conservation efforts. |
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Erik Meijaard; Serge Wich; Marc Ancrenaz; Andrew J Marshall |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-12-16 |
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Title: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume: - ISSN: 1749-6632 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Dec |
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Created Date: 2011-12-19 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7506858 Medline TA: Ann N Y Acad Sci Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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© 2011 New York Academy of Sciences. |
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People and Nature Consulting International, Kerobokan, Bali, Indonesia. School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (PanEco-YEL), Medan, Indonesia. Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Project, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Department of Anthropology, Graduate Group in Ecology and Animal Behavior Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, Davis, California. |
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