Endangered Indonesia
The rehabilitation center is overcrowded with confiscated orangutans. Oil palm plantations threaten the habitat of the primates.
September 18, 2007
THE name is Indonesia. However, do not misinterpret the word. It is not attributed to a country but a nickname of a female orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) at the Wanariset Samboja Lestari, Kutai Kartanegara regency, East Kalimantan. The officers at Wanariset named the primate after the country as she was born on August 17, 1994.
As of last year, Indonesia has been living and training on an artificial island in Wanariset. Together with her four mate
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