Sentences with phrase «orangutans in»

New populations of orangutans found Conservationists have found a new population of orangutans in a mountainous corner of Indonesia, a discovery that raises the total number of the endangered orangutan population by possibly thousands.

Nye tackles everything from toothpaste (does it endanger orangutans in Borneo?)

Hopefully you already are aware of the plight of orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra as logging and palm oil plantations continue to rapidly destroy their habitat.

Orangutans in Indonesia just can't catch a break.

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The population of orangutans in Borneo is uncertain, but most scientists estimate there are fewer than 50,000 individuals.

Economic returns from converting verdant rainforests into furniture, paper, and wood chips — and then using the land for oil palm plantations — have swiftly diminished the availability of sites for reintroduction, while dramatically boosting the number of orangutans in need of rescue.

Attending NGOs agreed that they would need to work with industry to find a balance that would allow the ongoing survival of orangutans in the wild.

Whether it's the destruction of rainforest shared by elephants and orangutans in Sumatra to produce palm oil; reports linking fast food giants to the burning of tropical forests in Brazil and Bolivia; or the hundreds of thousands of hectares of tree cover loss per year in West Africa — the world's forests are being razed to sate global demand for -LSB-...]

The best place to see orangutans in the wild is Tanjung Puting National Park on the island of Borneo.

Trek up Mt Kinabalu, snorkel amongst tropical fish, spot monkeys and orangutans in the jungle and explore Mulu Caves.

Thanks to a handful of low - cost budget airlines in the region, once far - flung gems (like the orangutans in Malaysia or the blue - flames of Indonesia) are more accessible than ever.

Sukau is deep in the jungle where you will stay at the Sukau Rainforest Lodge, and on the river cruises you might spot orangutans in the wild as well as lots of proboscis monkeys, macaques, hornbills, crocodiles, snakes and even pygmy elephants!

Whether it's meeting gorillas on a Rwandan jungle trek, spotting tigers in India or seeing Orangutans in the rainforests of Borneo we can help unlock your inner natural historian.

We visited Tanjung Puting National Park to catch a rare glimpse of orangutans in the wild.

The premium tower rooms located above mine provided views of the six islands that host the orangutans in their various stages of rehabilitation.

And indeed... «out there» I dare say I AM — nearly 2 + years living here in a g - forsaken rice paddy in Vietnam, and having the time of my life riding camels in the Gobi, treking from ger to ger in the boonies of western Mongolia, riding elephants in Laos, gawking at Uluru in Oz and orangutans in Sumatra, and furthermore...

She has also visited Rwanda, Uganda and Borneo where she fulfilled her childhood dream of trekking with mountain gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans in the wild.

Also most people who do kill orangutans in Kalimantan kill only one or a few of the animals in their lifetimes, according to the survey.

Scientists estimate that if more than than one percent of female orangutans in a given population are killed in a year, that population will go extinct — a figure that doesn't bode well for the Kalimantan apes.

The survey results suggest that between 750 and 1,790 Bornean orangutans are killed each year in Kalimantan — «high enough to pose a serious threat to the continued existence of orangutans in Kalimantan,» according to the study.

(See pictures of wild orangutans in National Geographic magazine.)

Orangutans in Borneo will eat just about any fruit in the forest.

Orangutans in Borneo can survive potential starvation by using their body fat and muscles as energy until a bounty of food is available, researchers find, adding that the results may someday shed light on the eating habits of our earliest ancestors.

Ibu Maryanti will presented her paper, OFI s Holistic Environmental Enrichment Program, describing their enrichment program for over 330 orangutans in a rehabilitation center on the island of Borneo at the 10th ICEE in Portland, Oregon.

What about some orangutans in a forest canopy, or a rhinoceros grazing on the savannah?

We support frontline conservation programmes and tirelessly campaign on issues threatening the survival of orangutans in the wild.

Orangutans in their native forests in Indonesia don't make weaning easy to see, Wich notes.

Alexander Nater, a co-author then at UZH, and the team concluded that by 3.4 million years ago, orangutans in northern Sumatra had split from those in southern Sumatra and Borneo.

In the 1930s there were reports of orangutans in Tapanuli, in the Batang Toru area of Sumatra, but they were never investigated.

Orangutans in one area use tools, for example, whereas others don't.

Skeletal and genetic evidence puts these apes on a separate evolutionary trajectory from other orangutans in Sumatra (Pongo abelii) and Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), says a team led by evolutionary anthropologist Michael Krützen of the University of...

Five wild orangutans in Borneo — nicknamed Sam, Henk, Rambo, Kondor, and Sultan — have learned to create a new kind of distress signal, using leaves to lower the pitch of their common warning call, known as a kiss - squeak.

The evidence comes from a yearlong field study of Sumatran orangutans in Indonesia's Gunung Leuser National Park.

Researchers observed Tapanuli orangutans in their hilly habitat as early as the 1930s.

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.

Conservation geneticist Benoît Goossens of Cardiff University in Wales and his colleagues gathered DNA from the feces and hair of 200 orangutans in the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary in Borneo.

The latter requires public awareness and education, more effective law enforcement, and also more studies as to why people kill orangutans in the first place.»

You could even adopt an orangutan in their name, as this is a great opportunity for you to invest in a gift that will provide a real benefit.

I just want to get up near her so we can get me and the orangutan in the shot and I can tell about how they have a baby every four years and all this interesting, fascinating stuff.»

I felt just like I do any time that orange orangutan in the White House tweets.

Ultimately, Duplicity is rather like a baby orangutan in a nappy — it looks beautiful, but stinks.

It's not unlike humans to get this kind of sinus surgery, but Daniel is the first orangutan in the country to ever get this kind of surgery, making medical history.

Highlights include tracking jaguars by dugout canoe in Guyana, tracking orangutan in eastern Sabah, backpacking round Japan, and being part of the first team of husky mushers to cross from Finland into Russia.

An encounter with an orangutan in its natural environment is one of the world's great — and increasingly rare wildlife experiences.

She's trekked the mountains of Peru, road tripped around Cuba, attempted several times to sneak into Tayrona National Park in Colombia, and even been peed on my an orangutan in Borneo.

Orangutan in Sumatra.

Without consumer support for sustainable palm oil, including paying the slight premium that it fetches, the whole thing could come crumbling down, with potentially devastating consequences for the biodiversity of Borneo (where the majority of palm oil is produced) and the orangutan in particular, as well as climate change due to increasing carbon emissions when carbon - storing rainforest is turned into oil palm plantation.

Sumatran orangutan in the Leuser rainforest.

He didn't even bother to eat, so enthralled was he by her balding charms» (from Gladikas, 1995) 2 [«He» is an orangutan in this passage.]