Threatening the Apes of Siberut
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
The government has issued permits for the exploitation of forests on Siberut, threatening the status of the island as a biosphere reserve.
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HEAVY rainfall suddenly poured down on the Island of Siberut as the two men were about to go deeper into the Peleonan forests. Thomas Ziegler and Susilo Hadi were forced to take shelter in the semi-permanent research shack. In the cold of the wind, the two researchers from the Gottingen University Primate Center in Germany waited for the rain to stop.
Inside the shack Thomas and Susilo were constructing a herbarium of about 200 stalks, leaves a
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