Indonesia vows to protect endangered orangutans (:
Thousands of orangutans die every year as their forest home is destroyed due to increased conversion of rainforests into palm oil plantations, which feed the greed for biofuels. In this case, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that the new orangutan conservation plan will conserve as much as 1 million hectares of critical habitat - that's more than 3,800 square miles - with the goal of stabilizing orangutan populations for the next 10 years.
"To save the orangutan we have to save the forest," President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the launch of an orangutan conservation plan at the climate talks in Bali.
As part of the orangutan conservation plan developed by the forestry ministry and NGOs, Indonesia will aim to stabilize orangutan populations and habitat from now until 2017 and return orangutans housed in rehabilitation centers to the wild by 2015.
"As much as 1 million hectares of orangutan habitat scheduled for conversion to oil palm will be saved through the plan's implementation," Erik Meijaard, a scientist with The Nature Conservancy which will help implement the plan, said in a statement..
"This could lead to 9,800 orangutans being saved and prevent 700 million tons of carbon from being released."
"To save the orangutan we have to save the forest," President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the launch of an orangutan conservation plan at the climate talks in Bali.
As part of the orangutan conservation plan developed by the forestry ministry and NGOs, Indonesia will aim to stabilize orangutan populations and habitat from now until 2017 and return orangutans housed in rehabilitation centers to the wild by 2015.
"As much as 1 million hectares of orangutan habitat scheduled for conversion to oil palm will be saved through the plan's implementation," Erik Meijaard, a scientist with The Nature Conservancy which will help implement the plan, said in a statement..
"This could lead to 9,800 orangutans being saved and prevent 700 million tons of carbon from being released."
Let us all save the orangutans <3
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