Orangutan Land Trust

Orangutan Land Trust
The Orangutan Land Trust
Orangutan Land Trust Logo.jpg
Founder(s) Michelle Desilets and Lone Drøscher Nielsen
Type Charitable organization
Location Oxford
Key people Trustees: Sir David Chivers, Clare McLardy
Scientific Advisors: Simon Husson, Dr Helen Murrogh-Bernard, Dr Ian Singleton, Dr Eric Meijaard
Business Advisor: Alexandra Saunders
Area served Borneo
Focus Environmentalism
Method Fundraising
Website http://www.forests4orangutans.org/

The Orangutan Land Trust is a UK charity with the objective of providing permanent solutions for the long-term survival of the orangutan in the wild by ensuring safe areas of land for their continued existence. While there are projects that rescue and rehabilitate orangutans, there is an increasing scarcity of rainforest in which the orangutan can live and as a consequence the species is facing imminent extinction.[1] As Lone Drøscher Nielsen writes: "Securing safe forest habitat is the single-most important thing we can do to save the orangutan from extinction."

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Habitat loss

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN/2004) included orangutans in the category of Critically Endangered. According to the IUCN, it is expected that in 10 to 30 years orangutans will be extinct if there is no serious effort to overcome the threats that the orangutans are facing.[2][3]

This view is also supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, which states in its report that due to illegal logging, fire and extensive building of oil palm plantations, orangutans are critically endangered, and if the current trend continues, they will become extinct.[4]

Projects under development

East Kalimantan Ecosystem Restoration Concessions

Borneo Orangutan Survival is one of the Indonesian NGOs seeking ways of reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). It has solicited the Department of Forestry for an Ecosystem Restoration Concession with the intention of using the forest area as a release site for rehabilitated orangutans from its Samboja Lestari and Wanariset projects in East Kalimantan (over 200 individuals). The proposed concession is 86,000 hectares of the ex-PT Mugi Triman International (MGI) timber concession.

Cental Kalimantan Ecosystem Restoration Projects

Orangutan Land Trust are working with the Green Line Corporation in Indonesia to secure 80,000 hectares of mostly degraded and deforested peat forest in Central Kalimantan as an Ecosystem Restoration Concession, in order to provide sanctuary for at least 200 orangutans rescued and rehabilitated by Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation's Nyaru Menteng Project.

Sabah, Malaysia

The Malua Wildlife Habitat Conservation Bank (Malua BioBank)[5] is located next to one of the last areas of virgin rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. The Malua BioBank will restore and protect 34,000 hectares (80,000 acres) of critical orangutan habitat called the Malua Forest Reserve.

See also

  • Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation
  • Lone Drøscher Nielsen

References

  1. ^ http://www.newsweek.com/id/209956 The Search for Sanctuary: Orphan Apes By Hillary Rosner NEWSWEEK Published Aug 1 2009
  2. ^ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Wild Orangutans: Extinct by 2023?
  3. ^ FOX NEWS: Orangutans in Losing Battle in Indonesia
  4. ^ United Nations Environment Programme: The Last Stand of the Orangutan - State of Emergency: Illegal Logging, Fire and Palm Oil in Indonesia's National Parks
  5. ^ http://www.maluabank.com/

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