#Travel Bornean Orangutan Conservation at Sepilok Rehabilitation.
Many orangutans housed at Sepilok are young, and were rescued. Baby orangutans are the main targets of poachers, who sell them into the illegal pet trade or to wildlife parks.
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Indonesia and #GRASP Promote Sustainable Palm Oil in 1st UNEA Forum.
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#GRASP Raises State of the Apes Up To U.N. Level http://goo.gl/1r4lhH http://ift.tt/1pVH171
Virunga National Park safe - for now
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Delta Airlines and Zoo Atlanta, USA, have teamed up to create awareness regarding the threat posed by the unsustainable development of palm oil to great apes. http://ift.tt/1rDPcUN
State of the Apes Report Calls for Development and Conservation Coordination. Read more http://goo.gl/4mk6X4 http://ift.tt/1qdJtYk
Xinhua News Agency (China): Palm Oil Cultivation Affects Ape Conservation. For more, visit http://ift.tt/1nE62jK http://ift.tt/1nE60Zg
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Press Conference celebrating the launch of “State of the Apes: Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation,” at the 1st U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) in the Media Center
From right: GRASP coordinator Doug Cress, UWA Executive Director, Dr. Andrew Seguya , Arcus Foundation Conservation Programme Director, Helga Rainer, African Wildlife Foundation Director of the African Ape Initiative, Jef Dupain, and Chief of the Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch of UNEP, Henrik Alexander Slotte. For more information on the book launch please visit http://ift.tt/1p73sIz http://ift.tt/1o2Dq5A
Press Conference celebrating the launch of “State of the Apes: Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation,” at the 1st U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) in the Media Center
From right: GRASP coordinator Doug Cress, UWA Executive Director, Dr. Andrew Seguya , Arcus Foundation Conservation Programme Director, Helga Rainer, African Wildlife Foundation Director of the African Ape Initiative, Jef Dupain, and Chief of the Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch of UNEP, Henrik Alexander Slotte. For more information on the book launch please visit http://ift.tt/1p73sIz http://ift.tt/1o2DpP1
Press Conference celebrating the launch of “State of the Apes: Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation,” at the 1st U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) in the Media Center
From right: GRASP coordinator Doug Cress, UWA Executive Director, Dr. Andrew Seguya , Arcus Foundation Conservation Programme Director, Helga Rainer, African Wildlife Foundation Director of the African Ape Initiative, Jef Dupain, and Chief of the Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch of UNEP, Henrik Alexander Slotte. For more information on the book launch please visit http://ift.tt/1p73sIz http://ift.tt/1moyWGW
Press Conference celebrating the launch of “State of the Apes: Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation,” at the 1st U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) in the Media Center
From right: GRASP coordinator Doug Cress, UWA Executive Director, Dr. Andrew Seguya , Arcus Foundation Conservation Programme Director, Helga Rainer, African Wildlife Foundation Director of the African Ape Initiative, Jef Dupain, and Chief of the Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch of UNEP, Henrik Alexander Slotte. For more information on the book launch please visit http://ift.tt/1p73sIz http://ift.tt/1o2Dm5R
Press Conference celebrating the launch of “State of the Apes: Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation,” at the 1st U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) in the Media Center
From right: GRASP coordinator Doug Cress, UWA Executive Director, Dr. Andrew Seguya , Arcus Foundation Conservation Programme Director, Helga Rainer, African Wildlife Foundation Director of the African Ape Initiative, Jef Dupain, and Chief of the Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch of UNEP, Henrik Alexander Slotte. For more information on the book launch please visit http://ift.tt/1p73sIz http://ift.tt/1moyTuK
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The illegal trade in orangutans has caused dangerous overcrowding at rescue and rehabilitation centers in Borneo and Sumatra, where confiscated orphans are brought to recover. For more, visit http://ift.tt/1q8IVmg http://ift.tt/1wwAUrK
A Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) brief on the use of emerging technology in the battle to stop the illegal trade in wildlife. For more, visit http://ift.tt/1nFyr7N http://ift.tt/1nFyr7P
A Delegate exploring the #apeAPP exhibition booth during the 1st United Nations Environment Assembly #UNEA. For more infomation on the #apeAPP visit http://ift.tt/1mecVFQ http://ift.tt/1lRTCIn
Who are you supporting for #Brazil2014. It looks like Jeje a young chimpanzee has his eyes set on orange. http://ift.tt/1itwGP3
GRASP and the Arcus Foundation will host a Book Launch, “State of the Apes: Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation” at the 1st U.N. Environment Assembly in the Media Center 25 June
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Three infant Bornean orangutans were confiscated – along with 2 bears and 2 gibbons – from illegal traders in Central Kalimantan today in a coordinated rescue between the Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP), Orangutan Foundation, Bornean Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry. For more, visit http://ift.tt/1nEF0Jn. http://ift.tt/1q19zO2
#GreatApeMoment: Namoya, a juvenile chimpanzee at the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Centre in DR Congo, discovers local wildlife. For more, visit http://ift.tt/1ljl0gW. http://ift.tt/1ljkXBZ
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GRASP and the Arcus Foundation will host a Book Launch, “State of the Apes: Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation” at the 1st U.N. Environment Assembly in the Media Center 25 June.
Get more information here http://ift.tt/1p73sIz http://ift.tt/1j29YIk
Meet the panel “Sustainable Palm Oil: Generating Global Demand and Raising Market Standards” on June 23 at 12:00 at the U.N. complex in Kenya.
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UNEA Green Room Event: Marc Engel of Unilever will join the panel to discuss “Sustainable Palm Oil: Generating Global Demand and Raising Market Standards” on June 23 at 12:00 at the U.N. complex in Kenya. http://ift.tt/1lgOlsp
An infant Bornean orangutan kept as a pet by a family on a houseboat in the Mentaya River in Central Kalimantan was confiscated today by the Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP), in collaboration with the Indonesian wildlife authority (BKSDA). Nicknamed “Lanting” – a Bahasa word that means “floating homes” – the orangutan will be taken to a rehabilitation centre. For more, visit http://ift.tt/1nEF0Jn. http://ift.tt/1pX1Wbj
GRASP Partners: Dr. Jan Ramer (Gorilla Doctors), Praveen Moman (Volcanoes Safaris) and Doug Cress (GRASP) meet up on June 20 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Volcanoes’ Virunga Lodge in Rwanda. For more, visit http://ift.tt/V8bjX1. http://ift.tt/1pnV9np
UNEA Green Room Event: Elizabeth Clarke will join the panel to discuss “Sustainable Palm Oil: Generating Global Demand and Raising Market Standards” on June 23 at 12:00 at the U.N. complex in Kenya. http://ift.tt/1raYKX6
GRASP and the Arcus Foundation will host a Book Launch, “State of the Apes: Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation” at the 1st U.N. Environment Assembly in the Media Center 25 June. http://ift.tt/1ymGkr7
The Last Great Ape Organization (LAGA) worked with law enforcement officials in Cameroon to arrest a primate trafficker today who shuttled animals between Congo and Cameroon in his automobile. He was detained in possession of a mandrill. For more, visit http://ift.tt/1kxYSA2. http://ift.tt/1oJA5f5
UNEA Green Room Event: Darrel Webber will join the panel to discuss, “Sustainable Palm Oil: Generating Global Demand and Raising Market Standards: on June 23 at 12:00 at the U,N. complex in Kenya. http://ift.tt/1vUvyq1
The recent confiscation of an infant orangutan and other endangered wildlife at Jakarta’s international airport headlines TRAFFIC’s latest illegal wildlife trade update. (Photo courtesy Agus Priambudi / PHKA). For more, visit http://ift.tt/1r16R8s http://ift.tt/1vRp9Ma
GRASP Scientific Commission chairman Serge Wich has been appointed an Honorary Professor at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), where he will research the conservation of the great apes. This special chair at UvA’s Faculty of Science has been designated in cooperation with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and Wich, a professor of primate biology at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, will give guest lectures at the UvA and supervise Masters students. For more, visit http://ift.tt/UaKd2H http://ift.tt/1r6Yad5
International Animal Rescue (IAR) confiscates orphaned and illegally traded orangutans on a regular basis in Borneo, and even those that have sustained a serious injury – such as Pelangsi, a male who lost his right hand in a snare – are given the opportunity to return to the wild. For more, visit http://ift.tt/1oFaAvu. http://ift.tt/1oFaAvz
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Photo courtesy of Christian Ziegler, Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary. http://ift.tt/1lSYBHe
The #apeAPP will be exhibitioning throughout the 1st U.N. Environment Assembly #UNEA in Nairobi starting 23 June. Get the #apeAPP here www.apeapp.org http://ift.tt/1lSqoaVwww.apeapp.org http://ift.tt/1lSqoaV
Journalist, primatologist and GRASP supporter Asha Tanna recently visited Uganda and Rwanda to check up on Mountain gorillas and conservation efforts in East Africa. For more, visit Asha’s blog at http://ift.tt/1i69Oom. http://ift.tt/1nN25uI
