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27 Feb 2006 - Rusti settling in at new sanctuary in Hawaii! The new sanctuary in Hawaii is now open and Rusti has a mate called Violet! OFI is delighted to announce that all of our efforts to establish a Banyan Tree Home in Hawaii have been fulfilled. Read more details in this selection of news reports... Star Bulletin.com The Honolulu Advertiser.com Rusti and Violet, together at last, in the Banyan Tree Sanctuar...

1 Nov 2005 - OFI Wins the Chevron Conservation Award for 2005 CONGRATULATIONS OFI! - OFI has won the CHEVRON CONSERVATION AWARD for 2005. The award was given to three outstanding nonprofit conservation organizations. OFI was honored as "the most effective foreign-based conservation group" in Indonesia and received congratulations from the government of Indonesia through its Consul General in San Francisco. The awa...

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17 Oct 2005 - Galdikas Still Fighting for Orangutans

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Aug. 17, 2005 - Asia's vanishing forests are home to many endangered species that may not survive the century. In the jungle of Borneo, Biruté Mary Galdikas has spent the past three decades braving tropical diseases and violent encounters to study and defend some of the world's last remaining orangutans. Her research has unlock...

13 Nov 2004 - Indonesian President Pledges "Strong Action" on Illegal Loggers

JAKARTA (AFP) Nov 05, 2004 - Newly-installed Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Friday pledged to take "strong action" against illegal loggers decimating his country's forests, promising they will be severely punished. Yudhoyono described widespread deforestation - much of it done with the complicity of corrupt government officials - th...

13 Nov 2004 - Susilo Pledges Stern Action Against Illegal Logging

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Nov 12, 2004 - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reiterated his pledge on Thursday to fight illegal logging and crack down on officials, police and military personnel found to be supporting it. "The government will deal seriously with this logging that has destroyed our forests... What loggers and smugglers have done so has cause...

9 Oct 2004 - Ramin Timber Given Greater Protections

Glimmer of Hope for Indonesia's Rainforests and Orangutans By Dr. Glen Barry, Forests.org Forests.org's recent alert on behalf of Indonesia's rainforests, in partnership with Greenpeace, has been successful. World governments have agreed to stricter control of the trade in ramin timber and its products - which provide critical habitat for the orangutan. A...

7 Oct 2004 - Fate of Orangutan and Sumatran Tiger Has Glimmer of Hope

Source: Greenpeace Press Release Bangkok, 7 October 2004 - Greenpeace welcomes the decision of the world's governments to take stricter measures to control the widespread criminal trade in ramin timber from the endangered habitat of the Orang-utan and the Sumatran Tiger. Given the high volume of illegal trade in this species, a great challenge lies ahead for a...

1 Oct 2004 - Rain forest advocacy NGO notes decline in ramin wood imports

By Eric Johnston, Staff writer(C) The Japan Times OSAKA - An Osaka-based environmental nongovernmental organization fighting to save tropical rain forests says both legal and illegal imports of ramin wood to Japan have been greatly curbed in recent years. Between April and August, Hutan surveyed 430 Japanese companies involved in the lumber trade. Of the 250 ...

20 Sep 2004 - 1,000 orangutans disappear each year: Survey

Source: The Jakarta PostBy Apriadi Gunawan, Medan A survey by the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) found at least 1,000 orangutans in North Sumatra and Aceh provinces are disappearing each year due to poaching and loss of habitat. According to the SOCP, there are only about 7,518 orangutans, 55 percent of them adult males, remaining in Aceh and...

22 Aug 2004 - Whole Genome Sequencing of the Orangutan

The National Human Genome Research Institute, a part of the National Institute of Health, just announced (August 5, 2004) that they plan to sequence the DNA of 18 new species, including the orangutan. The complete sequencing of the orangutan genome was proposed during the Great Ape Conference in Kuching, Sarawak, in 1998, and six years later, the effort will final...

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