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Orangutan Information Centre Annual Report 2008
April 30, 2009
Foreword
Indonesia’s forests, and along with them the future of the orangutan, are disappearing. With rates of habitat degradation, fragmentation, and transformation showing no signs of slowing down, orangutans are facing a number of threats such as illegal logging, mining, large scale conversion of forest to plantation agriculture, fires, and the illegal pet trade. The Sumatran orangutan is classified as Critically Endangered and is one of the twenty-five most endangered primates in the world, inferring an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. With high annual rates of forest loss (15% and higher) occurring throughout Sumatra, population and habitat models have shown that extinction of the Sumatran orangutan could occur within 50 years. The Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) has conducted various projects in 2008 which have contributed towards the conservation of Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) and their rainforest home. It has been a year of both enormous achievements and significant change for the drive of OIC activities in the field.
We have conducted much work around the Gunung Leuser National Park (GLNP), part of the UNESCO Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, considered the last stronghold of the Sumatran orangutan. Environmental education initiatives combined with community-led sustainable development projects form the core of our activities, and we have developed an extensive network of conservation partners to support our work. I am proud that our team of dedicated Indonesian conservationists are working at the frontline of environmental protection in Sumatra, and that our grassroots programmes are making a real difference to the fate of our country’s forests.
Panut Hadisiswoyo, Founding Director, January 2009
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