Indonesian Orangutan Habitat Wiped Out for Airport and Brothels
Agence France-Presse reports that part of a national park on Borneo island, home to hundreds of endangered orangutans [search], has been turned into a development zone [ark] complete with an airport and brothel. Some 600 orangutan have disappeared from Kutai National Park, East Kalimantan province, over the past seven years due to unchecked construction. It really makes you wonder -- just how callous can humanity be towards sister species, and if this is going on with government complicity, just how willing is Indonesia's government to limit deforestation? Or is REDD carbon finance proposal just about the carbon money?
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I am very happy to have just become a member of your website.
I am an avid Orang supporter and though I am impressed with the vast amount of enviro issues currently raised, I am really shocked and saddened that there is very little conversation going on about the plight of our close relatives the Orangs in Borneo and Indonesia and the respective destruction of the rainforests and palm oil plantation. Does anyone else care about our beautiful, intelligent docile and unique cousins?
Posted by: Jaki | August 8, 2009 10:05 AM