Useful Links & Downloads

Website Links

• Gunung Palung Orangutan Project: On-going research monitoring behavior, ecology, and physiology of orangutans in Gunung Palung National Park.
• Health in Harmony: Organization that provides affordable health care to people of West Kalimantan (particularly around Gunung Palung National Park) and helps protect the forst through awareness raigin and ecologically-sustainable community development programs.
• Orangutan Conservancy: Important partner organization in the fight to save orangutans from extinction.
• Mongabay: Useful website with information about current environmental issues in Borneo and around the world.
• Great Ape Survival Project (GRASP): United Nations project dedicated to saving the great apes.

Downloads

• Last Stand of the Orangutan: State of Emergency (20.2 MB): 2007 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report
• Greasy Palms: The Social and Ecological Impacts of Large-Scale Oil Palm Plantation Development in Southeast Asia (800 KB): Friends of the Earth Report, 2005.
• Orangutan Population and Habitat Viability Assessment: Final Report (2.2 MB): 2004 IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group
• Dori & Delima: Kisah Kasih Sayang Ibu dan Anak (6.6 MB): GPOCP-produced children's comic book (in Indonesian) promoting conservation by illustrating the threats of poaching and the pet trade.

Photo: Tim Laman