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Land-cover changes predict steep declines for the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii)

Serge A. Wich1,2,*, Ian Singleton3, Matthew G. Nowak3,4, Sri Suci Utami Atmoko5, Gonda Nisam3, Sugesti Mhd. Arif3, Rudi H. Putra6, Rio Ardi7, Gabriella Fredriksson2,3, Graham Usher3, David L. A. Gaveau8 and Hjalmar S. Kühl9,10, *Corresponding author. E-mail: s.a.wich@ljmu.ac.uk

Science Advances 04 Mar 2016:
Vol. 2, no. 3, e1500789
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500789

Abstract

The dark side of the red ape: male-mediated lethal female competition in Bornean orangutans

Anna M. Marzec & Julia A. Kunz & Sonja Falkner & Sri Suci Utami Atmoko & Shauhin E. Alavi
& Alysse M. Moldawer & Erin R. Vogel & Caroline Schuppli & Carel P. van Schaik & Maria A. van Noordwijk

Received: 4 September 2015 /Revised: 15 December 2015 /Accepted: 20 December 2015

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

Abstract
Female Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) are mainly solitary and philopatric, leading to adult

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Exterminators arrested for orangutan killings
The Jakarta Post | Mon, 11/21/2011 9:49 PM

The police have arrested two palm oil plantation workers for allegedly killing dozens of monkeys and orangutans in Puan Cepak village in Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan.

The suspects, both exterminators, claimed that they were paid to kill the animals under orders from a supervisor.

“They received Rp 200,000 [US$22] to kill a monkey and Rp 1 million for an orangutan,” National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Saud Usman Nasution said on Monday as quoted by tribunnews.com.

Letter: Prosecute the killers of orangutans
| Wed, 12/14/2011 9:55 AM Jakarta Post

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is extremely distressed and appalled to learn that Malaysian palm oil companies are responsible for genocide against Indonesia’s endangered orangutans.