www.greenthefilm.com The Orangutan Conservancy would like to encourage all of our website visitors to view an incredible film called “Green.” This powerful film in 48-minutes reveals the devastating effects of deforestation and palm oil expansion on orangutans, other species, and their rainforest homes. We salute the filmmakers of this important movie and hope you will watch it and also share …
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OC and OuTrop Join Forces
The Orangutan Conservancy is excited to add a new orangutan field site to our list of collaborators. The Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project (OuTrop). OuTrop is a long standing active wild orangutan field site located in Central Borneo in a forest called The Sabangau. OuTrop’s core research is in primate population density, distribution and behavior, biodiversity assessments and monitoring, and forest ecology. As …
Orangutan News Video: Preparing for wild release.
Stopping Orangutan Poaching a Matter of Enforcing the Law
Last December, wildlife activists discovered that the family of a military officer in Aceh was keeping a baby orangutan as a pet. “When we tried to confiscate it, the family wouldn’t allow it,” Panut Hadisiswoyo, founding director of the Orangutan Information Center, told the Jakarta Globe in a recent interview. When they checked back a few days later, the OIC …