In a effort to help save orangutans, Malaysian authorities are proposing a fund of 200 million ringgit (approx. 59 million US dollars) to rebuild the Ulu Segama-Malua forest in eastern Sabah state on Borneo island. The proposal covers work on 4,000 hectares of logged forests and 1,000 hectares of degraded forests (approx. total 12,355 acres).
It’s an exciting step in conservation efforts given the recent claims that orangutans could become extinct in the next 50 years without intervention.
The proposed plan is anticipated to be ready by late 2007.
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May 28, 2007 at 6:22 pm
[...] Rebuilding forests in an effort to save orangutans in Borneo [...]
May 30, 2007 at 12:05 pm
They will become extinct within 8 years at current rates. When is this reforestation happening? When are they going to conserve existing forest? They must hire more and better equipped rangers with helicopters.
July 29, 2008 at 7:29 am
This would be an expremely important step to help preserve habitat and the organutans.
Tourism would help repay the money invested to the govenrment.
I’m sure you get numerous volunteers coming thoughout the years to help the staff in anyway possible.
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