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Emergency: Planned destruction of 1.2 Million hectares of forest in Sumatra

13 Mar 201313 Mar 2013
From Sumatran Orangutan Society Newsletter Emergency: Planned destruction of 1.2 Million hectares of forest in Sumatra The Governor of Aceh province in Sumatra is set to wipe 1.2 million hectares…
Culture Change…
22 Feb 201322 Feb 2013
...a healthy relationship between humans and nature is a symbiotic one. We cannot live without nature, but we also cannot live without altering it. Whether we do so with understanding…
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Risk to Aceh rainforest grows – how long can Sumatran orangutans and tigers survive?

22 Jan 201322 Jan 2013
This is heartbreaking. I'm glad Mike Griffiths is still fighting the good fight, at least.
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Take Action for Sumatra’s Forests: 3 campaign alerts

15 Oct 2012
Take Action for Forests: 3 campaign alerts from Sumatran Orangutan Society  1) Save Tripa, Save Orangutans Thanks to the worldwide outcry for the Indonesian government to put an end to…
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Cabrillo College: Phil Kaplan’s “Making a Difference”

17 Aug 201217 Aug 2012
A great new addition to the Great Ape Conservation info - right in my backyard, so to speak. Cabrillo College: Phil Kaplan's "Making a Difference": http://www.cabrillo.edu/~pkaplan/making_a_difference.html "We are accepting (working or…
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The latest orangutan crises…

7 Aug 20128 Aug 2012
There are so many other crises unfolding that I am processing and hope to speak to soon, but meanwhile there are two bits of news on the Pongo conservation front that I…
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Painful Topics: Primate Conservation

29 Jan 20129 May 2018
I realize that the title of my blog probably makes some think that I'd be talking about non-human primates a bit more.  But, despite the fact that I could be…

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