@stevesilberman if you care about these amazing animals, their habitats and communities around them, check out the Sumatran Orangutan Society (a client of mine!)
Orangs have developed "Medicine" 😀
We share a planet with other kinds of people, but there are only 60,000 left of them 😞
Give them rights like other People. At least there would be consequences for the what Humans will do, MURDER charges for instance.
JAKARTA — Indonesia is experiencing a resurgence in forest clearance due to the expansion of pulpwood and oil palm plantations, reversing years of declining deforestation associated with these two industries. And at the forefront of this new wave of deforestation is a single company: PT Mayawana Persada.
A Sumatran orangutan attends school in Jantho, Aceh province, Indonesia. The education programme undertakes the lengthy process of returning often orphaned orangutans to the forest after a period of quarantine and rehabilitation. Before being released back into the wild, the animals relearn the skills they will need to survive in the wild.
First Resources has consistently denied operating shadow companies. However, The Gecko Project gathered insider testimony and corporate documents linking the company and the Fangiono family to plantations clearing rainforest in Indonesian Borneo.
T G P calculates that companies controlled by the group have cleared more than 95,000 hectares (235,000 acres) of forest since First Resources announced its zero-deforestation pledge in 2015.
Some good news coming out of Canada for #elephants and great apes! The Canadian government is introducing a bill to phase them out of captivity!
This means zoos and private owners would be banned from acquiring new ones or breeding existing ones.
Why is this a big deal? Elephants and great apes (which includes #chimpanzees, #gorillas, #orangutans, and #bonobos) are highly intelligent and social beings with complex natural habitats. Studies have shown that these animals suffer both physically and mentally in captivity, and often develop serious behavioural and health problems due to the stress of confinement.
There are around 30 great apes held in captivity in Canada and over 20 captive elephants. Many of these animals were captured from their homes in the wild before being caged for human entertainment.
Vegan Australia welcomes this news from Canada, and we hope this will inspire the Australian government, and Australian zoos, to embrace similar measures and end the exploitation of all animals. Currently Australia is keeping 27 elephants, and approximately 60 great apes in captivity.
Human actions have led to the deaths of more than 100,000 Bornean orangutans since 1999, mainly for crop protection, bushmeat or the illegal wildlife trade.
For the first time in 15 years, researchers surveyed residents of Kalimantan, the Indonesian section of Borneo, to find out why people kill the great apes and whether conservation projects help protect them.