Sentences with phrase «orangutan project»

ECA comprises Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Global Witness, Humane Society International, Rainforest Action Network, Rainforest Foundation Norway, The Rainforest Foundation U.K., Wetlands International and The Wilderness Society, Nepenthes, and the Australian Orangutan Project.

Instead, WWF, the Frankfurt Zoological Society and The Orangutan Project have set up a commercial company that will work with indigenous forest groups to harvest products from the forest without damaging it.

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If the project goes as planned, it will log the living conditions and mental health of most of the thousands of gorillas, chimps, bonobos (pygmy chimps), and orangutans in the United States.

«This work not only helps us understand why orangutan abundance varies between sites, but also suggests a mechanism through which forest degradation may reduce the number of orangutans that can be supported in an area because of the quality of foods available,» said Harrison, managing director of the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project and an honorary visiting fellow at the University of Lorangutan abundance varies between sites, but also suggests a mechanism through which forest degradation may reduce the number of orangutans that can be supported in an area because of the quality of foods available,» said Harrison, managing director of the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project and an honorary visiting fellow at the University of LOrangutan Tropical Peatland Project and an honorary visiting fellow at the University of Leicester.

«Considering that most of the critically endangered orangutan's habitat is disturbed by human activities, understanding the habitat elements required to ensure orangutan survival in degraded forests is key for their long - term survival,» added Marc Ancrenaz of HUTAN / Borneo Futures, a core project partner.

«In the course of a year, we took the CAO aircraft and team to northern Borneo, mapped its habitats in 3 - D, combined the data with Marc's orangutan observations, and made a critically important scientific discovery that directly bears on the conservation of one of the world's most iconic ape species,» said Asner, the project's leader.

What's more, a proposed hydroelectric project threatens 8 per cent of the orangutans» habitat.

Our projects — Sumatran Orangutan Society.

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Probably the most famous of these species is the Bornean orangutan which is subject to many conservation project across the island.

Venture into the Kabili - Sepilok Forest Reserve to visit the orangutan rehabilitation center, where we'll join scientists to observe the morning feeding, learn about onsite projects, and visit the nursery.

This 4 week program in the jungles of Sumatra combines volunteering on our unique Orangutan protection project with an amazing...

The resulting book, «The Human Age,» is a splendidly prismatic tour of humans» techno - biological environmental impacts and tinkering, taking readers from an encounter with the Toronto Zoo's iPad - wielding orangutans («ginger - haired tree dancers,» in Ackerman's parlance) to the sterile drawers of DNA from vanishing wildlife at the University of Nottingham's Frozen Ark project back to the Creative Machines Lab of roboticist Hod Lipson in her home town.

«Our study suggests... [the] initiative will not significantly reduce deforestation in northern Sumatra and will have little impact on orangutan conservation,» David Gaveau of the University of Kent, UK, and the Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program told environmentalresearchweb, «because firstly a large amount of forest inside the proposed REDD project area is protected de facto by being inaccessible; and secondly much of northern Sumatra's lowland forests will remain outside of REDD and will be exposed to the combined expansion of high - revenue oil palm plantations and road networks.»

RSPB highlighted their current work in forests, focusing on their international campaigns like the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, whose on - the - ground work is making a difference to places like the Harapan and the Sabangau rainforests, on the front line of advancing wave oil palm which is driving deforestation and the corrupt conversion of forest for plantation concessions.

The Rimba Raya project area is home to many endangered species, among them the orangutan.

Matt Adam Williams is a naturalist and wildlife photographer and Communications Manager of the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project.

Project revenues support science institutions, including the world - famous Orangutan Foundation International.

Cassie Freund is the program director of the Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program, an orangutan protection project in IOrangutan Conservation Program, an orangutan protection project in Iorangutan protection project in Indonesia.