Richard Thomas
Global Test Market

Humans entering the forests of Borneo 150 years ago were six times more likely to encounter wild orangutans than they would today, a new study finds. The researchers suspect that heavy hunting over the years is to blame. The finding means our understanding of the lives and behaviors of the great ape is based on artificially low population densities. We may need to rethink what we know about our nearest animal relative.

http://globaltestmarketone.blogspot.com/2010/08/hunting-key-factor-in-orangutans.html

14/08/2010
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The genocide of our closest living relatives will soon come to an end.  How it ends depends entirely on us humans.  Ending on a good note means illegal logging, poaching, retaliatory killing, and animal trafficking will be halted in the only place in the world where these omnivorous animals live: the islands of Sumatra and Borneo.  However, if these activities cannot be stopped, some say orangutans, which share 97% of human genetics, may be extinct in the wild within as few as two years.

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http://bushwarriors.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/orangutan-genocide-how-much-time-is-left-for-these-primates/

13/08/2010
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Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com

August 12, 2010

Orangutan encounter rates have fallen six-fold in Borneo over the past
150 years, report researchers writing in the journal PLoS One
<http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0012042>
.

Erik Meijaard, an ecologist with People and Nature Consulting
International, and colleagues compared present-day encounter rates
with collection rates from naturalists working in the mid-19th
Century. They found orangutans are much rarer today even in pristine
forest areas.

http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0812-orangutans.html

12/08/2010
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Jakarta, 9 August 2010

Press Release

ProFauna Urges the Indonesian Government

To Stop the Deforestation in Kapuas, West Kalimantan

Deforestation of natural forests in Kalimantan or Borneo Island keeps
happening and threatening the wildlife and local people. A logging
company, PT. Toras Banua Sukses has received a renewal permit to
operate in Kapuas forest which threats the habitats and survival of
some endangered wildlife including: Orang utans, proboscis monkeys,
and sun bears, and also causes disputes to the local tribal people who
depend their livelihood on the forest. For these reasons, ProFauna is
campaigning against the operation and urging the government to stop
the deforestation.

09/08/2010
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By David Fogarty
<http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=uk&n=david.fogarty&>
, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia

SINGAPORE | Fri Aug 6, 2010 6:36am BST

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An Australian carbon services company has signed
a deal with nine Malaysian tribal leaders to certify carbon offsets
from a project aimed at preserving more than 100,000 hectares of
tropical forest.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6750LZ20100806

06/08/2010
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Agony aunt and 'humanzee' Carole Jahme prepares to take audiences on
an evolutionary journey in her new show at the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe

 Carole Jahme Is Bio-diverse! debuts at this year's 2010 Edinburgh
Festival Fringe
I have devised a comic science show to mark the International Year of
Biodiversity 2010 <http://www.biodiversityislife.net/>
, Carole Jahme Is Bio-diverse!
<http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/carole-jahme-is-bio-diverse>
, which premieres at this year's Edinburgh Festival
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/edinburghfestival>
.

I'm taking on the role of a monkey-human hybrid in a bid to help
audiences get in touch with their inner apes and understand what makes
us who we are.

http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/carole-jahme-is-bio-diverse

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/jul/30/humanzee-evolution-carole-jahme-edinburgh-festival

04/08/2010
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