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« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2010, 03:58:42 AM » |
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 Dr Grainne McEntee, head of operations at Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS), said: "It is heartbreaking that such practices still go on. Increasing awareness of the impact of deforestation in the Western world is crucial to helping bring this trade to an end"
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Ralph Jones
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« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2010, 03:59:33 AM » |
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 He said the continued devastation of the Bornean rainforest fuels this illegal trade in Orangutans, both as pets and for use in entertainment
In 2004, the Thailand government banned Safari World from conducting these controversial shows after the centre was found to be using illegally smuggled orangutans from Indonesia. The issue was exposed by Monkey World in Dorset and after Safari World was closed 48 orangutans were rescued and taken to a refuge in Nyaru Menteng, Indonesian Borneo |
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« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2010, 04:00:00 AM » |
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 Borneo Orangutan Survival, which cares for 1,000 orangutans at the refuge was instrumental in the successful repatriation. “When they arrived in Nyaru Menteng they always protected their face and head whenever people tried to get closer to them," said Hardi, the assistant project manager. "Maybe because their trainers often beat them. But no longer do they cover their faces and head as they have started trusting us”
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« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2010, 04:00:27 AM » |
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 Dr. Grainne McEntee of Borneo Orangutan Survival said: “The rescued orangutans now enjoy a semi-wild life on one of the islands close to the project. We will soon release some of these rehabilitated orangutans back to safe protected rainforest - a future we strive towards for all the orangutans" |
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« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2010, 04:00:53 AM » |
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 Safari World had claimed that the rescued orangutans were bred in captivity, but DNA testing proved that many of them had been smuggled from Sumatra and Borneo |
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« Reply #11 on: April 16, 2010, 04:01:28 AM » |
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