The Search for Orangutans in Sangkulirang
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Unexpectedly, a new orangutan population was discovered in a remote part of Kalimantan.
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THE Sangkulirang limestone mountains in the East Kalimantan district of Kutai is a largely inaccessible forest area. There were rumors that a significant population of orangutans live there. Erik Meijaard, a senior ecologist of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), was excited with finding the truth to the rumor.
“Since I first surveyed the vicinity of these mountains in the mid-1990s, I have heard rumors of orangutans in these largely unexplored part
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