Orangutans Campaign

Shaggy Dog band has been almost one year to the Rescue Orangutans Ambassador through the Centre for Orangutan Protection. Wherever they live, the group will slip from Yogyakarta is the orangutan's life saving campaign.

Personnel consists of Heru Shaggy Dog (vocals), Richard (guitar), Raymond (guitar), Lili (keyboards), Bandizt (bass), and Yoyo (drums). Bandizt including fluent explain about the life of an increasingly endangered orangutans.

Shaggy Dog has several times along the forests of Borneo to see first hand the condition of the orangutan. "We always campaign if a gig, invite the audience, especially young people, preserve the orangutan. If not, the orangutans will be extinct by 2030, "he said. Activist Animal Friends Jogja is reminiscent, orangutans condition is very pathetic.

Band which has released five albums are currently preparing songs for the next album. Although rarely appeared on television screens, Shaggy Dog had a gig overseas, such as the Netherlands and Australia. YOUNG Creativity When a gig at the 4th Anniversary last weekend, Shaggy Dog invites three female fans from the Netherlands to see first hand their appearance.

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Orangutan release Vulnerable

Without the protection of secondary forest, endangered Borneo orangutans release effort failed miserably even though Borneo Orangutan Conservation conservation organizations have paid millions of dollars of United States concessions to the government.

Release kalimantan orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) to the forest area, said Hardi, not free. Therefore, the concessions provided is considered a commercial area as well as areas of forest concession rights.

Starting this year, the BOS will be released into 127 orangutans for the first time after 2002. "The government does not have the perspective of protection of endangered wildlife," said Hardi.

COP has been surveying the area Wahau Estuary. "Our conclusion, Muara Wahau region with massive forest crime rate. Send an orangutan in there the same as sending to slaughter farm, "said Hardi.

Hardi shows COP documents concerning the construction of rail lines for coal from Miao to have memorakporandakan Sepaso forest. Illegal hunting, including the orangutan, are also more intense in there.

"Throughout 2010, the COP evacuate four orangutans are captured local communities from forest areas are destroyed it. What if the newly rehabilitated orangutans released in the area? "He said.

A similar situation happens to the released orangutans in the area around Bukit Tigapuluh National Park in Jambi. "Timber companies released threaten Sumatran orangutan Orangutan Conservation Project (SOCP)," he said.

Forest Preserve

Noordin, Director of Save Our Borneo orangutans are also pessimistic about the release. "Release or translocation is the worst choice made. Supposedly, our focus is to maintain forest habitat for orangutans, no matter it is primary or secondary forests, "he said.

He criticized the plan ignores the moratorium which was considered a matter of preservation of these animals and stunned about the standing timber in forest areas of primary / secondary.

In fact, the release of orangutans can only be in secondary forest. According to Hardi, appropriate legislation, the primary forest can not add new species.

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Pay No Guarantees Safe Orangutan

The COP also noted the failure to release by the Sumatran Orangutan Orangutan Conservation Project (SOCP) in the area around Bukit Tigapuluh National Park in Jambi. That caused the weakness of the government's commitment to the protection of wildlife.

"If the sites are considered less safe, why not look elsewhere? Do not blame the government. They themselves are surveyed to find the location. They should be able to select an area safe from human disturbance and is able to provide enough food for the orangutans, "said Darori.

According to him, limited government funding and manpower to secure the wild animals intended for release. "The foundations that can fund a lot of help from the people of Europe or America to save the orangutan. Why they do not all pay for security personnel in the release area is it? Of course we will also help, "he said.

Should be responsible

The attitude of the Ministry of Forestry (Kemhut), according to forestry experts Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Hariadi Kartodihardjo, show errors of thinking. According to him, Kemhut should not only think about how to exploit the forest, but have also helped preserve the forest and its contents, including wildlife.

"They're still using a measure of performance success of the addition of revenue through the sale of timber and forest concessions in the short term," said Hariadi, who is also former Chairman of the Presidium of the National Forestry Council (DKN).

According to him, Kemhut should calculate the environmental services of forests, began to function as a carbon sink, preventing natural disasters such as floods and landslides, home to wild animals and micro organisms, to other commodities besides timber.

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Orangutan, Berliner Since 1928

Currently, the Berlin Zoo has two groups of Sumatran orangutans. Couple Bini, Mano, born in Rotterdam Zoo in 1977. They live with their children who were born in 2002 Good at Berlin Zoo. Then comes the second orangutan groups, namely Enche, who was born in Heidelberg Zoo in 1989 and Njamuk who was born in Berlin Zoo in 1990. From both born One, their children, in 2002.

Rahde Tobias said it was no longer get directly from the Indonesian orangutans. They no longer take animals from the original wild habitat for most species is threatened with extinction. They have now Orangutan born at the zoo.

Even if the animals are born in Berlin, still biologically a creature of the tropics. Therefore, during the winter months, the animals from other countries that hotter climates also provided a special closed room. During the summer, there is no problem because it is quite warm. The Monkey House and the Tropical House deliberately created and completed late 1970's. "They were alive and more adaptable because born in Europe," he said.

In addition to the orangutan, a few other animals from Indonesia is the squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii) and langur (Trachypithecus auratus). In 1984 and early 1990's, former President Suharto had rewarded the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) to the Berlin Aquarium, it's just a giant reptile that was long dead.

Nearly extinct animals

Not only endangered orangutans living in the Berlin Zoo. Endangered species can be seen here, like the reptile tuatara (Spehenodon punctatus) from New Zealand that can be aged up to more than one hundred years, penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus), black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) from African, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), and of course Knut The Ice Bear (Ursus maritimus).

Now in 1028 there is the Berlin Zoo mammals (174 species), 2310 birds (329), 435 reptiles (73), 500 amphibians (52), 5434 fish (511), and 6006 animal without a backbone (586). Species from different continents. With all of the animal, the Berlin Zoo was first opened in August 1, 1844 was a zoo with the largest number of species and the largest in the world.

Tobias said the Berlin Zoo, together with other zoos in Europe to work together in various breeding programs. Garden Star Berlin are involved in 88 different breeding programs ranging from a very small mouse lemurs to elephants asia. Especially for the orangutans of Indonesia, the Berlin Zoo was involved in the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP). Babies born to breeding results in part transferred to other zoos around the world.

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Orangutan habitat encroached Jambi Out

About 180,000 hectares of Sumatran orangutan living space in the vicinity of Bukit Tigapuluh National Park, Jambi, been encroached upon society. Illegal activity is still ongoing so that threaten the sustainability of wildlife conservation that.

Program Director of the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS)-which handles reintroduction of Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) in Jambi-Peter Pratje said, there is massive destruction of forests in the last eight years.

Illegal encroachment resulting in damage to 180,000 hectares from about 360,000 hectares of lowland forest block in the buffer zone of Bukit Tigapuluh National Park (BTNP). Regions with the status as production forests left by the concession holder is released orangutans living space for conservation.

Based on image analysis in 1985, Bukit Tigapuluh ecosystem covering 651,232 hectares still have forest cover as much as 95 percent, but in 2005 shrank to 77 percent. By 2010, forest cover remaining 49 percent of this region.

To ensure the survival of the Sumatran orangutan, the government needs to restore the forest in Bukit Tigapuluh ecosystem. "There are about 110,000 hectares of forest in the Bukit Tigapuluh ecosystem that can be saved by way of restoring the ecosystem. Conversion of forests to plantations will only threaten the existence of orangutans, "said Peter.

Sunday (27 / 2), eight orangutans confiscated from Aceh and Medan arrived in the Jambi to undergo reintroduction or introduction of return to live in the wild.

Orangutan Reintroduction Manager FZS Julius Paolo Siregar said all officers confiscated orangutans Center for Natural Resource Conservation in Medan will be trained in the station, before it released in mid-season fruit this year. One of them, Morgan, is still 1.5 years old. A total of 129 officers confiscated orangutans have been released back into the forest buffer around BTNP since 2002. (ITA)

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Many of Orangutan Suspected Illegal in Central Java

Post-reared orangutan confiscation of illegally  resident  in Cilacap, Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP) indicated there are orangutans that are kept  illegally  in the territory  of Central  Java.

COP party claimed to have pocketed a list of names of people suspected of maintaining orangutan. However, follow-up on the list still have to wait for the results of verification of the Natural Resources Conservation Center (KSDA), Central Java.

According Dhaniek Hendarto, conservation specialist who led the team of the Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP), as protected animals, orangutans may not be maintained without a permit. For this reason also, the COP to work with Rani confiscate BKSDA Central Java, an orang-utans that are kept illegally by Muchtar Efendi, a manager Kurnia Maternity Clinic in Cilacap.

Latin name Pongo pygmaeus primates called Rani was immediately taken to Hyderabad after confiscated for later flown to a rehabilitation center in Central Kalimantan.

Muchtar Efendi who had refused to hand over an orangutan who dipeliharanya currently under sentence of five years imprisonment or a fine of Rp 100 million for violating Law No. 5 of 1990 concerning Conservation of Biological Diversity.

So far, added Dhaniek, Muchtar only get warning from the authorities and had to let orangutans were seized to be returned to their habitat in the forests of Borneo.

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