Primate field projects are often under the direction of foreign researchers, who live and work alongside members of local communities. Here we discuss the impact of religion on orangutan research and conservation in Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia over the past 25 years. We demonstrate how our local staff integrates orangutan conservation with religious practices. This includes sharing Islamic prayers on the responsibility of humans to safeguard nature, and the breaking of the fast during Ramadan with villages that are our conservation partners. Islam prohibits the eating of orangutans (as well as forest pigs). In contrast, the indigenous Dayak communities of Borneo historically do hunt and eat orangutans. This impacts the current or...
In 2015, the Sarawak Government made a public pledge to stop illegal logging in the State, to create...
Unsustainable exploitation of natural resources is increasingly affecting the highly biodiverse trop...
Rescue, rehabilitation and reintroduction programmes are a vital conservation tool used to protect i...
Human-orangutan conflict and hunting are thought to pose a serious threat to orangutan existence in ...
Human–wildlife conflicts, such as crop-raiding, increase as people expand their agricultural activit...
We investigated why orangutans are being killed in Kalimantan, Indonesia, and the role of conflict i...
Borneo orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) was the only great apes that lives in Asia, one of in Indonesia. T...
For many threatened species the rate and drivers of population decline are difficult to assess accur...
For more than 50 years, Critically Endangered Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) have been rescued ...
<p/>The results of a three year research project on the ecology, behaviour and conservation of...
Ecological studies of orangutans have almost exclusively focused on populations living in primary or...
Orangutans are the great apes that is only living in the continent of Asia. They consist of 3 speci...
Conservation benefits from understanding how adaptability and threat interact to determine a taxon’s...
Abstract. Permana S, Partasasmita R, Iskandar J, Rohmatullayaly EN, Iskandar BS, Malone N. 2020. Tra...
AIM: We demonstrate a robust approach for predicting and mapping threats and population trends of wi...
In 2015, the Sarawak Government made a public pledge to stop illegal logging in the State, to create...
Unsustainable exploitation of natural resources is increasingly affecting the highly biodiverse trop...
Rescue, rehabilitation and reintroduction programmes are a vital conservation tool used to protect i...
Human-orangutan conflict and hunting are thought to pose a serious threat to orangutan existence in ...
Human–wildlife conflicts, such as crop-raiding, increase as people expand their agricultural activit...
We investigated why orangutans are being killed in Kalimantan, Indonesia, and the role of conflict i...
Borneo orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) was the only great apes that lives in Asia, one of in Indonesia. T...
For many threatened species the rate and drivers of population decline are difficult to assess accur...
For more than 50 years, Critically Endangered Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) have been rescued ...
<p/>The results of a three year research project on the ecology, behaviour and conservation of...
Ecological studies of orangutans have almost exclusively focused on populations living in primary or...
Orangutans are the great apes that is only living in the continent of Asia. They consist of 3 speci...
Conservation benefits from understanding how adaptability and threat interact to determine a taxon’s...
Abstract. Permana S, Partasasmita R, Iskandar J, Rohmatullayaly EN, Iskandar BS, Malone N. 2020. Tra...
AIM: We demonstrate a robust approach for predicting and mapping threats and population trends of wi...
In 2015, the Sarawak Government made a public pledge to stop illegal logging in the State, to create...
Unsustainable exploitation of natural resources is increasingly affecting the highly biodiverse trop...
Rescue, rehabilitation and reintroduction programmes are a vital conservation tool used to protect i...