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	<title>Orangutan Information Centre</title>
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	<description>Save Sumatran Orangutan from Extinction!</description>
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		<title>Guidebook to the Gunung Leuser National Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOS and OIC have produced a detailed guidebook to the Gunung Leuser National Park.
This guidebook is intended to be used by anyone entering the Gunung Leuser National Park (GLNP). Whether a licensed guide or a first-time visitor, you will find a wealth of useful information to enhance your experience in the park, making it more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://orangutancentre.org/2010/02/guidebook-to-the-gunung-leuser-national-park/</link>
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		<title>Conservation and Digital Opportunity Centre (CDOC)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Conservation Digital Opportunity Centres (CDOCs) were established in December 2009 and are managed by the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC). The two centres, located in Bukit Lawang Eco Tourism Area at the Bukit Lawang Housing Complex and the Tangkahan Eco Tourism Visitor Centre, are a joint initiative between the Bamboo Community University Association (BCUA) Taiwan, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://orangutancentre.org/2009/11/conservation-digital-opportunity-centre-cdoc/</link>
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		<title>Rare Pride Campaign: Creating the Feeling of Proud to Build Conservation Constituency in Besitang Area of Gunung Leuser National Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gunung Leuser National Park (TNGL) is a world heritage treasure known by the nickname &#8220;Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra&#8221;. Until now this national park has not separated from the threats and problems that increasingly threaten the sustainability of the world heritage site. For solving the problem is not as easy as you imagine. To unravel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://orangutancentre.org/2009/10/rare-pride-campaign-creating-the-feeling-of-proud-to-build-conservation-constituency-in-besitang-area-of-gunung-leuser-national-park/</link>
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		<title>An Interview About Orangutan Conservation and the Complexities of Palm Oil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Palm oil both a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra by Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com 
An interview about orangutan conservation and the complexities of palm oil  by Rhett A. Butler with Panut Hadisiswoyo and David Dellatore of the Orangutan Information Centre and Helen Buckland of the Sumatran Orangutan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://orangutancentre.org/2009/09/an-interview-about-orangutan-conservation-and-the-complexities-of-palm-oil/</link>
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		<title>Oil-Palm Plantation Roadshows Performance Report Final</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oil-Palm Plantation Roadshows Performance Report Final
Statement of Need
There is an urgent need for conservation action in order to retain viable wild populations of orangutans. Once widespread throughout the forests of Southeast Asia, they are now confined to two islands in Indonesia and Malaysia, where two genetically distinct species exist: the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://orangutancentre.org/2009/08/oil-palm-plantation-roadshows-performance-report-final/</link>
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		<title>U.S. to Forgive Indonesian Debt in Exchange for Conservation Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JAKARTA, Indonesia &#8212; The United States will sign an agreement Tuesday to forgive nearly $30 million in Indonesian debt in return for the large Southeast Asian country agreeing to protect forests on Sumatra Island, which is home to endangered tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutan.
The deal is the largest so-called debt-for-nature swap the U.S. government has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://orangutancentre.org/2009/07/us-to-forgive-indonesian-debt-in-exchange-for-conservation-plan/</link>
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		<title>Palm Oil Boom Threatens the Last Orangutans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A famous British company, Jardines, is profiting as the lowland forest – which shelters the few remaining orangutans – is razed to make way for massive palm oil plantations, reports Kathy Marks in Tripa, Indonesia.
Perched halfway up a tree near a bend in the Seumayan River, a young orangutan lounges on a branch, eating fruit. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://orangutancentre.org/2009/06/palm-oil-boom-threatens-the-last-orangutans/</link>
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		<title>UK Firm Plans to Log Habitat of Critically Endangered Orangutans for Palm Oil Production</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Scottish firm has been implicated in funding a plan that would destroy the rainforest habitat of critically endangered orangutans in Sumatra.
Jardine Matheson Holdings is the majority shareholder of Astra Agro Lestar, a palm oil company that plans to develop the peatland forests of Tripa in Aceh Province for oil palm plantations. Environmentalists say conversion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://orangutancentre.org/2009/06/uk-firm-plans-to-log-habitat-of-critically-endangered-orangutans-for-palm-oil-production/</link>
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		<title>Carbon Credits Could Help Orangutans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carbon markets were designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The system could also be a financially feasible way to save tropical forests, according to a new study that estimated how much it would cost to prevent logging in Borneo&#8217;s forests.
What&#8217;s more, an established market would help buoy orangutans, pygmy elephants and other threatened species.
&#8220;I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://orangutancentre.org/2009/06/carbon-credits-could-help-orangutans/</link>
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		<title>Orangutans Cannibalise Own Babies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two female orangutans have been seen cannibalising the bodies of their recently deceased babies.
Such behaviour has never before been recorded in any great ape species.
The two incidences occurred just one month apart in the same region of forest in Indonesia.
The conservationist who witnessed both incidences suspects they were examples of aberrant behaviour, triggered by stressful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://orangutancentre.org/2009/06/orangutans-cannibalise-own-babies/</link>
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