Orangutan Conservation: Easy Come, Easy Go
The Jakarta Globe, Thursday, April 23, 2009
It is indeed good news that a new population of possibly as many as 2,000
orangutans ("Rare Orangutans Found in Kalimantan," April 12) has been
discovered at a time when the government is killing them off at the rate of
3,000 a year — a figure it has been able to maintain consistently for each of
the last 25 years.
In the past 10 years alone, overseas donors have pumped tens of millions of
dollars into Indonesia toward saving orangutans. Would anyone like to hazard a
guess how much the Indonesian government has contributed?
And is it not time the main culprit, the Ministry of Forestry, was renamed the
Ministry of Logging — legal or otherwise?
This ministry has the blood of thousands of orangutans on its hands.
Sean Whyte
chief executive Nature Alert
www.naturealert.org
Source: THE JAKARTA GLOBE
URL: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/opinion/letters/article/17424.html
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