One of the biological riches that continue to be protected archipelago is an orangutan, where its presence is an indicator of the extent to which the preservation of tropical rain forest ecosystem in the country pursued. Orangutans is highly dependent on forest resources, with a density of 1 to 5 fish per square kilometer is also available habitat for at least 5 types of hornbill birds, 50 species of fruit trees and 15 liana species, and various other animal species.
Be aware that Indonesia has 3 of the 7 binding ozone rainforest in the world, so that even the world's ecosystems depends on the success of forest conservation in Borneo. Thus BOS Foundation - The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, which has stood since 1991, and has branches in 12 countries to manage the conservation of primates in the world's largest professional to struggle preserving biodiversity, forest rehabilitation, inventory, agroforestry, social welfare and education and care health orangutans.
When we visited the Nyaru Menteng, the Road Little Riwut km. 28, Palangkaraya, with the distance less than 1 hour overland journey from the city of Palangkaraya, then we can look at this largest primates. Nyaru Menteng is an orangutan reintroduction project in Central Kalimantan, one of the programs other than conservation BOS Mawas, Wanariset Samboja, Samboja Lestari and Samboja Lodge. Orangutans itself has two species, the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) and Borneo orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in which for Borneo orangutans is 90% lived in Indonesian Borneo, and the rest is in Borneo territories of Sabah and Sarawak. There are more than 100 orangutans that need to be rescued from Kalimantan villages each year, with a population of 57,000 orangutans are estimated to spread in various regions.
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