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By Timothy Gardner
Sep 26, 2007

Primate scientist Jane Goodall said on Wednesday the race to grow crops for vehicle fuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa and South America and adding to the emissions blamed for global warming.

“We’re cutting down forests now to grow sugarcane and palm oil for biofuels and our forests are being hacked into by so many interests that it makes them more and more important to save now,” Goodall said on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative, former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s annual philanthropic meeting.

As new oil supplies become harder to find, many countries such as Brazil and Indonesia are racing to grow domestic sources of vehicle fuels, such as ethanol from sugarcane and biodiesel from palm nuts.

The United Nations’ climate program considers the fuels to be low in carbon because growing the crops takes in heat-trapping gas carbon dioxide.

But critics say demand for the fuels has led companies to cut down and burn forests in order to grow the crops, adding to heat-trapping emissions and leading to erosion and stress on ecosystems.

“Biofuel isn’t the answer to everything; it depends where it comes from,” she said. “All of this means better education on where fuels are coming from are needed.”

Goodall said the problem is especially bad in the Indonesian rain forest where large amounts of palm nut oil is being made. Growers in Uganda — where her nonprofit group works to conserve Great Apes — are also looking to buy large parcels of rain forest and cut them down to grow sugar cane, while in Brazil, forest is cleared to grow sugar cane.

The Goodall Institute is working with a recently formed group of eight rain forest nations called the Forest Eight, or F8, led by Indonesia. The group wants to create a system where rich countries would pay them not to chop down rain forests and hopes to unveil the plan at climate talks in Bali in December.

Scientists from the forested countries are trying to nail down exactly how much carbon dioxide the ecosystems store, but the amount has been estimated to be about double that which is already in the atmosphere, Goodall said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070926/sc_nm/clinton_goodall_forests_dc

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By Mark Jordan In Borneo
Friday September 28, 2007

Buying biofuel for your car could be more devastating to the planet than traditional fossil fuels.

A Sky News investigation has revealed that filling up with bio diesel containing palm oil is helping to destroy some of the world’s most precious rainforests.

With forecourts across Europe and the United States now offering the so-called “green fuel”, demand for palm oil has boomed.

But the well-intentioned switch to biofuels in the West is destroying Borneo’s rainforests - one of the greenest places on Earth.
Environmentalists claim that an area of forest the size of Wales was cleared last year as Indonesia cashes in on the new “green gold” and plants miles of palm oil trees to meet surging demand.

The UN says the entire rainforest will be gone in 15 years, and the native wild orang-utan extinct in just 10.

Nine hundred of the apes are now caged refugees. Others are found shot or macheted after being killed trying to eat the palm saplings that have replaced their homes.

It is not only the drive for palm oil that is destroying the jungle. China is the main buyer of illegal logs and minerals from here.

I found a zircon mine that had turned the forest into a desert. How on earth could the authorities not have noticed the moonscape left behind?

Groups trying to highlight the destruction are being threatened by the developers.

Lone Droscher, from the Borneo Orang-utan Survival Group, said: “If they cannot buy you off, they try to threaten you. This has happened to us a lot.”

Indonesia says it has banned the burning and cutting of jungle for palm oil - but our investigation found mile after mile of freshly cut and burned rainforest.

Ninety new biodiesel factories are under construction here - the developers encouraged by far-away countries “going green”.

The palm oil saplings here are planted. Those believing it to be a green fuel will never see the beauty of what it replaced.

Source: The Jakarta Post - September 18, 2007
By Iwan Gunawan, Jakarta

As the 13th session of the Conference of Parties (COP-13) on climate change scheduled for Dec. 3-14, 2007 in Bali is drawing near, there have been many discussions on the possible schemes for reducing greenhouse gas emissions post 2012 when the current arrangement under Kyoto Protocol is set to expire.

One scheme currently under discussion is the inclusion of market incentives for protecting tropical rainforests, the present deforestation of which contributes to nearly 20 percent of manmade global carbon emissions.

While the inclusion of such a scheme in the future may potentially bring significant benefit to tropical forest country like Indonesia, it is not clear whether the country’s economic planners are aware of what they are getting into.

While the event in Bali will increase Indonesia’s statue in the international fora and certainly bring the much needed visitors to the island, it would be useful if the country’s decision makers are also paying attention to what may transpire in the meeting.

Indonesia is currently the second largest producer of palm oil after Malaysia, and soon to be number one. Recently Indonesia revealed its plans to double crude palm oil (CPO) production by 2025, a goal that requires a two-fold increase in the oil palm yield.

Under one major investment proposal Indonesia would develop about 1.8 million hectares of plantations in the border region in northern Kalimantan. Palm oil has also attracted new interests among investors partly due to its prospect to becoming the main ingredient for producing biodiesel to substitute traditional fossil fuel. Europe is at present the most aggressive region and market for biofuels which include biodiesel and bioethanol.

The use of biofuels in the long run may reduce carbon emissions because during the process of growing biofuel producing plants, carbons from the atmosphere are actually stored in the plants. Contrary to the burning of fossil fuel which simply releases the carbon previously stored underground, the biofuel production-and-use can in itself create a net carbon sink.

However, growing large scale oil palm plantations by converting natural forests is shrinking the carbon sink because plantations do not store carbons as much as natural forests. Additionally, for every drop of increase in palm oil production additional lands need to be occupied, unlike in the fossil oil production operation where only limited drilling sites are used.

The rise of palm oil as an emission reducing substitute for fossil fuel is recently being challenged by environmentalists, not because of the physical property of the palm oil but because of the way the expansion of the palm oil plantations, especially in Indonesia, damaged the natural forests.

Now, back to the post Kyoto climate deal which may put protection of tropical forest to qualify for market incentive, it would just be logical that destruction of the same forests should entail market disincentives. It would be too naive for Indonesia to expect that the new deal would give compensation for protecting the forest without putting any form of penalty or cost for its destruction.

It is only imperative that developed countries, especially Europeans, will only be willing to buy biofuel products which were produced without damaging the natural forests. Debates on this issue has started, and countries like Malaysia which is currently the top producer of palm oil has been persistent in arguing that its oil palm plantations were not destroying its modern-day forested areas. Indeed, most of Malaysia’s plantations were built on the old tin mining sites or rubber plantations that have existed prior to 1990 which was the reference year of the Kyoto Protocol.

What about Indonesia? Well, only relatively small areas (around 5,000 hectare) of oil palm plantations existed in North Sumatra, Aceh and Lampung during the colonial era. But plantations expanded to 290,000 hectares by 1980 and to around 5 million hectares now. This means that most of the new plantation development occurred after the Kyoto reference year of 1990.

With remote sensing technology, it would not be too difficult to prove that many of these plantations were built by converting natural forests. It is therefore obvious that Indonesia’s palm oil is doomed to be associated with much of the deforestation in the country, and hence may be unacceptable to European markets.

The country’s planners need to think and work hard in ensuring that Indonesia’s palm oil will not end up having the same faith as our precious wood logs. Our logs have to be smuggled at low price to Malaysia, whose logging industry has better eco-certificates, to be able to reach Europe. As Malaysia has a strong case in its oil palm plantations for not being the cause of recent day tropical deforestation, it would be degrading for Indonesia to be one day smuggling its palm oil to Malaysia to be able to sell it to Europe.

There are a number of aspects that Indonesian planners, resource managers and negotiators need to consider. First, there is an urgent need for the government to push for a real forestry and a real plantation business. Timber should be sourced from sustainably managed production forest, whereas plantation should be developed on vacant agricultural land and not as a cover for massive logging.

As a matter of principle, this would require that permit to open a plantation is only given strictly in non forested lands. A strong legislation is required to give this policy a credibility.

Second, Indonesia should then fight for the post Kyoto reference year to be moved from 1990 to a later year, ideally to a point in time when major deforestation by unavoidable cause like major forest fires occurred, such as 1997.

This would allow vast deforested areas to qualify for receiving reforestation incentive. Third, there needs to be an accurate accounting on how much area has been deforested by the existing oil palm plantations. The same amount of currently deforested land has to be restored to clear the sin of the existing plantations so their products would be acceptable to the environmentally friendly markets. All of the above efforts need to be included in the negotiations of any future climate deal.

The writer teaches regional development studies at the University of Indonesia and Bogor Institute of Agriculture. He can be reached at iwan-g@indo.net.id.

Source: Antara News - September 18, 2007
Bogor, W Java

The Indonesian Ecolabeling Agency (LEI) has set up cooperation with several other institutions to provide the furniture market with products and handicrafts made from wood taken from ecolabeled forests, a spokesman said.

Therefore, LEI as well as people`s forest management groups in Wonogiri district in Central Java and Gunungkidul district in Yogyakarta which already have ecolabel certificates along with the Indonesian Furniture and Handicraft Industry Association (Asmindo) had agreed to provide the furniture market with ecolabeled furniture and handicraft products, LEI`s communication manager Indra Setiawan said here Tuesday.

“Many furniture and handicraft industries keep on asking for products made from wood taken from forests which have obtained ecolabel certificates from LEI,” he said.

“Products which already have ecolabel certificates will enter the furniture and handicraft markets in the near future. After the Idul Fitri festivity, a store in Jakarta will have and sell furniture and handicraft products which were made from wood taken from forests in Gunungkidul and Wonogiri,” he said.

Realizing that Indonesian forests must be preserved, LEI began developing methods to manage forests in environment-friendly ways in 1994, he said.

“Ecolabel certificates will only be given to forest and forestry product management units which manage their forests through environment-friendly methods and allow local people to share the benefits of the forests,” he said.

An American Sustainable Furniture Council executive told a workshop in Jakarta last week that the US furniture and interior products market was now focusing its attention on products made of wood taken from environment-friendly and sustainable forests. The US furniture and interior product market was recorded at $84.2 billion last year

Formerly, Indonesian Furniture Association chairperson Ambar Tjahyono said the cost of ecolabel certification amounting to Rp100 million was still considered as hindrance to the progress of the ecolabel certification program. She said at least 40 percent of Indonesia`s furniture and handicraft exports was obsorbed by the US, 45 percent by West Europe and 15 percent by East Europe and Australia. Last year Indonesian furniture and handicraft exports reached a value of $2.4 billion, she said.

Ambar also said Indonesia`s furniture and handicraft industry needed about 10 million cubic meters of wood and was receiving a supply of 5.4 million cubic meters from state forestry firm PT Perhutani and 4.5 million cubic meters from public forests.(*)

Monday, September 24, 2007
Rhett A. Butler, San Francisco

Environmentalists and palm-oil producers are increasingly at odds. Greens groups say palm oil is driving the conversion of tens of thousands of hectares of peatlands and lowland forest in Indonesia, putting wildlife at risk, increasing the vulnerability of forests to fires, and triggering large emissions of greenhouse gases.

Palm-oil producers say their industry plays a crucial role in Indonesia’s economic growth and provides employment to tens of thousands of Indonesians. Going further, some plantation owners suggest that campaigners are merely trying to hurt the industry, while others accuse the West of hypocrisy for criticizing palm-oil production while overlooking environmental harm caused by biofuels in other parts of the world, including the Amazon (soy biodiesel and sugar-cane ethanol), Europe (rapeseed), and the United States (corn ethanol).

Nevertheless, pressure from environmentalists is beginning to weigh on the industry, with European policymakers now reconsidering Indonesian palm oil as a source for biodiesel.

Now a new paper calls for a truce, proposing that conservationists work with palm-oil producers to protect particularly important areas of biodiversity. Writing in the scientific journal Nature, Lian Pin Koh and David S. Wilcove from Princeton University, argue that the high yield and high prices that make palm oil so attractive “could be turned to a biodiversity advantage.”

They suggest that green groups could buy small tracts of existing oil-palm plantations and use the revenue they generate to acquire land to establish a network of privately-owned nature reserves for biodiversity conservation.

Koh and Wilcove analyzed the profitability of oil-palm plantations in Sabah, Malaysia, and found that at current prices, each hectare of oil palm could provide funds to acquire 0.36 ha of land for conservation annually. Assuming oil-palm plantations break even after five or six years, this suggests that over the 25-year lifetime of an oil-palm plantation, a conservation group could generate enough cash to conserve seven hectares of forest for each hectare of oil palm.

Should carbon credits for avoided deforestation eventually be factored into the scheme, the area conserved could be even greater. In fact, the concept could be a way to cover the initial costs of starting up and certifying a carbon-offset project.

While some producers and environmental groups may think the proposal sounds crazy, Koh and Wilcove believe collaboration between the adversaries would be a “win-win partnership,” because NGOs would be able to protect forests while palm-oil companies “would be able to enhance their corporate image to satisfy environmentally-conscious consumers.”

Koh and Wilcove suggest that the relationship could lead both to innovation that reduces the environmental impact of oil-palm plantations and to the emergence of a premium market for sustainably produced palm oil which would provide financial incentives for palm-oil producers to adopt sustainable practices.

While it is possible that a premium market for eco-friendly palm oil could emerge on its own, the West could speed the process by offering producers a guaranteed market for palm biodiesel that is independently certified as having been produced in an environmentally sound and socially equitable way.

Instead of subsidizing grossly inefficient biofuel production at home, Europe and the United States could help drive the development of “greener” biofuels as well as the rehabilitation and conservation of forest lands.

Indonesians as well as the global environment would benefit from closer collaboration rather than escalation of conflict.

The writer is a U.S.-based entrepreneur with a background in economics. He can be reached via mongabay.com.

Source: The Jakarta Post

By Andre Soliani

Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for greater efforts to combat climate change and proposed a world conference on environmental issues for Rio de Janeiro in 2012.

“The most-industrialized countries should set the example,” Lula said in an address today to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. “It is indispensable that they meet the commitments established in the Kyoto Protocol, but that is not enough; we need more ambitious goals after 2012.”

The Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases, is due to expire in 2012. Lula proposed the meeting in Brazil to evaluate the achievements on the effort against global warming and to set “a new line of action.”

Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy, has made a “notable effort” to cut back on its contribution to climate change, Lula said. He highlighted the country’s 50 percent reduction in deforestation in the Amazon region over recent years. The Amazon itself will now suffer because of global warming, he added.

Lula also pointed to the country’s experience in biofuels production as an example to be followed. “The world needs urgently a new energy source and biofuels are vital to construct an alternative,” he said.

Lula said Brazilian ethanol production will be marketed with a quality seal to assure it is produced with social and environmental standards.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=ae1BaNotDctU&refer=news

Mark Forbes, Herald Correspondent in Jakarta
September 25, 2007

COUNTRIES and companies will be paid to stop logging forests under a World Bank plan to establish a fund aimed at reshaping the fight against climate change.

The president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, will announce the Forest Carbon Protection Facility after climate change talks with world leaders, including the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, in New York today.

The World Bank believes its $400 million fund will expand into a multibillion-dollar program to preserve forests and reduce global warning. More than 20 per cent of greenhouse gases result from deforestation.

Pilot projects for the fund are to be detailed at the pivotal December climate change conference in Bali, which is to outline a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. World Bank sources believe the fund can be a central feature of a new agreement to combat global warming.

Governments, forestry companies and local communities would be eligible for compensation for agreeing to abandon logging or protect forests.

Under the Kyoto Protocol, a carbon credits scheme of financial incentives excludes forest protection. Only replanting is eligible for assistance.

The facility would establish a carbon credit market to help companies meet their emissions targets by paying developing countries to halt logging. Large energy firms operating coal-fired power stations - a major source of greenhouse emissions - are understood to have expressed interest in the facility.

The existing carbon credit market is worth billions. The value of forest protection payouts under the new fund could rise to between $7 billion and $18 billion a year, according to estimates in the Stern report on climate change.

Dr Yudhoyono and Mr Zoellick will issue a statement supporting the facility today. Indonesia is likely to become the first pilot project for logging compensation.

With Indonesia hosting the December climate change conference, Dr Yudhoyono is attempting to ensure deforestation is addressed. The conference is expected to endorse testing the forest protection facility for inclusion in an agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol on its expiry in 2012.

Indonesia is the world’s third-largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions because of rampant forest-clearing.

In New York, Dr Yudhoyono is also chairing a meeting of nations that hold more than 80 per cent of tropical rainforests. The group of up to 20 countries is expected to declare its commitment to forest preservation and support for the new scheme.

Source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/foresters-paid-to-stop-logging/2007/09/24/1190486225992.html

09/25/07

KUCHING: She had watched them in wildlife documentaries, looked up about them on the Internet and read about them in magazines.

It became ingrained in 24-year-old Odile Nordon’s mind that orang utans were docile, mild-mannered and shy creatures.

That perception was shattered on Sunday when the Frenchwoman, here on holiday, got involved in a “tussle” with a female orang utan while visiting the Semenggoh Wildlife Centre, an orang utan sanctuary, 25km from here.

She was slightly hurt and shaken up by the experience.

While taking photos of a group of orang utans during feeding time at the Bamboo Garden about 10.30am, Nordon paid no heed to “Delima”, a female orang utan, approaching her.
Delima suddenly grabbed the backpack Nordon was carrying, forcing the French-woman to put up a fight to stop the orang utan from taking it away. Her friend, Dalia Orlean, 23, joined in the tussle.

The angry Delima then turned on Nordon, ripping off the pants she was wearing and scratching her on her thighs.

“Never for a moment did I think the orang utan would attack me,” Nordon said.

“After all that I had seen and read, I thought they were not wild. My perception after watching them on TV and reading about them in magazines was that orang utans in Borneo were friendly, cuddly creatures.

“It’s a painful lesson to find out the truth,” said Nordon, who left for Singapore hours after the incident.

“It was not an attack. Delima did not attack the French-woman,” the state’s chief park warden, Wilfred Landong, said yesterday.

“It was a tussle. The woman and the orang utan fought over a backpack.

“The injuries the woman suffered are not from the orang utan’s bites but from her fingernails.

“If she (Nordon) had been bitten, the orang utan would have torn chunks of flesh from her thighs.”

Landong said he believed Delima thought that the backpack Nordon was carrying contained food for her since it was feeding time and, therefore, went for it.

“When a tug-of-war for the bag ensued, Delima must have got angry and become furious,” he said.

“Orang utans don’t normally attack people. They are certainly shy creatures but they can be aggressive when provoked or when they feel threatened.”

Orlean admitted hitting Delima’s arms to force her to let go of the bag.

Landong said one of the signs posted at the centre advised visitors to walk away when approached by orang utans as they were curious creatures and wanted to take whatever visitors had.

Source: New Strait Times Online

A smiling, gentle giant
1973 - 2007

We really miss you, big guy…

By Bambang Bider
20 Sept 2007

Life becomes more meaningful when one becomes aware that everything in this universe is a whole entity, the parts of which are interrelated and interdependent.

From the point of view of internal ecology, there is an intrinsic value in every creation. Whether one realizes it or not, destruction is always linked with ignorance and a rejection of the intrinsic value of the lives of others.

Just imagine if another’s life happens to be an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), an animal that is 97 percent genetically similar to humans.

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has stated that the orangutans in Borneo (Kalimantan, Sabah and Sarawak) and Sumatra are now on the verge of extinction.

The 2002 IUCN Red List puts Borneo orangutans in the category of an endangered species while Sumatran orangutans are categorized as being a critically endangered species.

More than 80 orangutan experts and observers from all over the world gathered in Jakarta in January 2004 to attend the International Workshop on Population Habitat Viability Analysis (PHVA), in which the latest potential population of orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra and the factors influencing the survival of these species were analyzed.

According to an estimate made in 2004 by PHVA, the population of Sumatran orangutans of the Pongo abelii species stands at 7,501, spread in 13 habitats.

Meanwhile, Borneo orangutans have three subspecies, namely Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus in the northwest of Borneo, starting from the northern part of Kapuas up to Sarawak, Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii in Central Borneo, starting from the southern part of the Kapuas up to the western part of Barito, and Pongo pygmaeus morio in the northeast of Borneo, namely in Sabah and East Kalimantan.

The total population of Borneo orangutans is estimated to stand at 57,797, therefore bringing the total population of orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra to 65,298.

Threat from tree felling In the Workshop on an Action Plan for the Conservation of Kalimantan Orangutans held in Pontianak in October 2005, Sri Suci Utami Atmoko of Yayasan Penyelamatan Orangutan Borneo (BOS) said the total population of orangutans was greater than what was estimated about a decade ago. “However, this does not prove that there are now more orangutans than one or two decades back.”

More specifically, on Borneo orangutans, MacKinnon and Ramono (1993) estimated the total population of orangutans in Kalimantan in the 1900s at over 200,000 but Sugardjito and van Schaik (1993) have found that the figure has dropped to about 45,000.

Jito Sugardjito, who is also country representative of Fauna and Flora International, said, “Tree felling to transform the function of a forest area and to turn it into forest concession land is the main threat to the population of orangutans.”

In the Workshop on the Action Plan for the Conservation of Kalimantan Orangutans, which was held in Pontianak after a similar workshop for Sumatran orangutans held in September in Brastagi, Herry Djoko Susilo, from the directorate general of forest protection and nature conservation, identified the main threats facing the population of Kalimantan orangutans.
These were: illegal logging, a shift in the function of a forest areas, hunting, forest fires, unirrigated farming, drying of peat forest areas and poor management of concession forest areas.

Meanwhile, the result of research done by A.D. John published in his 1992 research paper titled Vertebrate responses to selective logging: Implications for the design of logging systems shows that the felling of 18 trees in each hectare of orangutan habitat can damage 47 percent of the fruit trees and reduce their number by up to 50 percent.

On the same occasion, Julia Ng Su-Chen of Traffic Southeast Asia said, “What is also saddening is that cross-border illegal trading of orangutans is now flourishing.” It is estimated that between 200 and 500 of them are traded every year.

She added that the trading of orangutans was flourishing because of the high market demand for these primates as pets, for private collections, souvenirs or as materials for traditional medicine.

Political will, vested interests

Meanwhile, Purwo Susanto of the Forest Conversion Initiative (Kalimantan Region) of the World Wide Fund for Nature, has come up with a more systematic cause for the fragmentation of the habitat of orangutans, qualitatively and quantitatively, that has led to the sharp drop in their population.

He said, “The main cause is both legal and illegal logging, RTRWK (spatial plans for forest areas) that fail to accommodate the need for orangutan conservation, as well as poor law enforcement and lack of political will and political action to stop illegal trading.

“Also, critical are poor coordination among countries, between the central government and regional administrations and among non- governmental organizations dealing in orangutan conservation, a lack of information related to orangutan conservation, in terms of both dissemination and equipment, on the one hand, and the quality of the drafting of policies and of law enforcement, on the other.” Regarding the aspect of political will in relation to orangutan protection, Julia Ng Su-Chen has said that Indonesia and Malaysia, particularly Sabah and Sarawak, commonly have regulations protecting these primates. The difference lies only in the political action in enforcing these regulations.

“In Sabah and Sarawak sanctions are really imposed on hunting or acts that may threaten the lives of orangutans to deter the recurrence of such acts. In Indonesia, regulations are yet to be properly enforced,” she said making a comparison.

Of the total population of Borneo orangutans, 13,614 are found in Malaysia, spread in a total of 17 habitats in Sabah and Sarawak. It is understandable that orangutans in Sabah and Sarawak are highly protected because their population is small.

Meanwhile, Purwo Susanto cited a plan for the development of 1.8 million hectares of coconut palm estates along the border areas between Indonesia’s Kalimantan and Malaysia’s Sarawak as an example of a policy of the Indonesian government that fails to accommodate orangutan protection.

“The border area has forests of different status. In the context of the development of coconut palm estates, it is not right to convert an area into a coconut palm estate if it is still a forest and is ecologically functional to a larger area,” Purwo stressed.

In response to this problem, Herry said, ” Of course, if it concerns broader interests, we cannot view it from only one aspect. Our view must be balanced, in the context of sustainable development.”

Erik Meijaard of The Nature Conservancy said that it was very easy to save orangutans. “Just don’t kill them and don’t damage their habitat,” he noted.

“Protect areas that must be protected. Do not damage protected forest areas by converting the land to large-scale coconut palm and other estates.

“Forest concessionaires must accommodate harmoniously orangutan conservation efforts in their concession areas. Stop orangutan hunting,” he said. (publish in The Jakarta Post, Nov 22, 2005:)

Source: http://bambangbider.blogspot.com/2007/09/borneo-orangutans-face-threat-of.html