Conservation News: Canadian Mining Company To Cut Down Over 1.2 Million...
Aceh has world-renowned biodiversity, including critically endangered orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers. This change would also undermine its incalculable value as a major carbon sink. Imagine...
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Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) Says ‘No’ To Moratorium Extension
A worker harvests palm fruit in a plantation owned by PT Tinting Boyok Sawit Mandiri (TBSM) in Sanggau district, West Kalimantan. Photo: (Antara/Jessica Helena Wuysang) by Anggi M. Lubis for the The...
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Conservation News: RSPO Failing To Meet Sustainability Objectives For Palm...
photo courtesy of Mongabay.com from Mongbay.com An initiative that aims to improve the social and environmental performance of palm oil production is faltering in its mission by failing to establish...
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Conservation News Update: Sumatran Orangutans’ Rainforest Home Faces New Threat
A rescued male Sumatran orangutan learns to climb tree branches at the quarantine center of Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program in Sumatra. (AFP Photo/Romeo Gacad) By Angela Dewan for the Jakarta...
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Conservation Report: Sei Betung: The Spirit of Restoration in Action
Protected forest: A security post stands in a restoration area of Sei Betung forest in Langkat regency, North Sumatra. Dinda Bethari, Medan, for the Jakarta Post It takes more than two hours to travel...
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Conservation Report: Orangutan Habitat in Dire Need of Protection
Tripa rainforest burns in this 2012 image. (photo courtesy of SOCP) Apriadi Gunawan for The Jakarta Post Conservationists in Medan, North Sumatra, have urged the government to take swift action to stop...
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Conservation News: Palm Oil Company Violated RSPO Standards, Evicted From...
Haze from fire and burnt tree stumps within recently cleared peatland forest; ©Ifansasti/Greenpeace from mongabay.com The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has evicted Indonesian palm oil giant...
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OC Receives SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Grant for 2013 OC/OVAG...
With only a month to go before our fifth annual Orangutan Conservancy/ Orangutan Veterinary Advisory Group (OC/OVAG) Workshop,we have just been notified that our workshop is the recipient a large...
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Conservation News: Global Calls to Save Aceh Forest
Photo from OC files. A new palm plantation where the rainforest once stood. by Nadya Natahadibrata for The Jakarta Post More than a million people worldwide have joined online calls for President...
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Conservation News: Conservationists Warn Against Keeping Wild Animals As Pets
photo from the Orangutan Conservancy by Hotli Simanjuntak for The Jakarta Post Conservationists from the Aceh Orangutan Forum (FORA) have called on the central government to take stern measures against...
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The Projects We Help To Support
The Orangutan Kutai Project The Conservation Drone Project The Orangutan Conservancy (OC) believes that no single project alone can hope to save orangutans from extinction. OC field research projects...
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Conservationist Speaks Out About Construction In Harapan Rainforest
Harapan Rainforest photo courtesy of indonesien.um.dk by Jon Afrizal for The Jakarta Post Conservationist PT Restorasi Ekosistem Konservasi Indonesia (REKI) rejected a plan to build roads for coal...
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Conservation News: Illegal Wildlife Trade Flourishes in Sumatra
Caged orangutan at Limbat’s ‘zoo’ in Kandang, Aceh on the island of Sumatra. Photo by Paul Hilton. Birchard Kellogg, special to mongabay.com In a chilly rain on Sunday, in a town just a few kilometers...
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Conservation News: Second EPA Fact-Finding Trip Collects Oil Palm Data
Palm oil seeds (AFP Photo/Sutanta Aditya) by Linda Yulisman for the Jakarta Post The visit by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assess crude palm oil quality may have a positive outcome and...
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Orangutan Conservancy Blog: OC On the Road and Heading to the Workshop
OC’s Dr. Raffaella Commitante and Outrop founder Dr. Mark Harrison reunite in Indonesia ahead of next week’s OC/OVAG Veterinary Workshop By Dr. Raffaella Commitante for the Orangutan Conservancy The...
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OC on the Road: Two Reunions and One Emergency
Young Ciu when Raff first met him in 2002 Hello again. Well, the best laid plans of mice and men and women and orangutans… If you read the last blog, you’ll remember that I was supposed to go to the...
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OC/OVAG Veterinary Workshop Begins in Indonesia
The fifth annual OC/OVAG Veterinary Workshop unfolds today in Bogor, Indonesia. The multi-day event once again brings together the wildlife healthcare workers that care for thousands of orangutans in...
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The OC Blog: Day One Report from the OC/OVAG Veterinary Workshop
Attendees at the 2013 OC/OVAG Veterinary Workshop get down to work on day one. By Raffaella Commitante Today was the first day of the Orangutan Conservancy’s OC/OVAG 5th annual workshop! It was a very...
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The Orangutan Conservancy Blog: Day 2 Report From the OC/OVAG Workshop
SOCP’s Drh. Yenni details two innovative surgeries Here we are with the highlights from DAY 2 of the OC/OVAG Veterinary Workshop. Discussions today centered on the huge document of articles and...
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OC Blog: Day 3 Report from the OC/OVAG Veterinary Workshop
Ike, Coordinator Post Release Monitoring, BOS Nyaru Menteng, before leaving OC/OVAG Workshop to release orangutans back into the wild By Raffaella Commitante Today the OC/OVAG delegates were the guests...
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