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Toronto Zoo orangutans may get iPad
Valerie Hauch | The Star | 29 February 2012
When the tire swing
or the rope hammock no longer entice, what’s a bored orangutan to do? Reach for
the iPad, because there’s an app for that ape.
The Toronto Zoo is
at “the top of the list’’ to get a donated iPad from Orangutan Outreach, a conservation group
spearheading an Apps for Apes program.
Founder and
director Richard Zimmerman said he has been watching the Milwaukee Zoo’s iPad
program involving its three orangutans, which started last year, and is
extending Apps for Apes to other zoos.
29/02/2012
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Can the jungle law save orangutans?
There have probably been at least 2,800 confiscations of illegally kept orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra since the early 1970s. In the same period, millions of hectares of orangutan forest have also been destroyed for plantations and other uses, and thousands of orangutans killed, starved and burned to death in the process.
16/02/2012
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Bushmeat: Every Man’s Protein until the Forest is Empty…
Steve Boyes | National Geographic | February 2012
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Some call it the "African silence" when a forest is struck silent by poaching and the bushmeat trade. Others call this phenomenon "dead zones" that have no birds, no monkeys, no small mammals, no snakes... These places have been stripped bare by local communities that are struggling to feed their families and access medical care. The Mbuti pygmy encampments photographed in the early 1980s depict a wire- and nylon-free lifestyle that saw them capture forest animals on a daily basis for local consumption. Today most of the bushmeat is exported to distant markets by bicycle, 4×4 vehicles, and on foot. No one has the right to judge these people when they focus on bushmeat as their only source of protein. We must, however, restrict use of forest products, as far as possible, to people with heritage rights to the land, as they are the custodians of these forests.
09/02/2012
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