{"id":3521,"date":"2012-10-16T15:52:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:42:27","slug":"socp-rescues-sumatran-orangutan-from-isolated-forest-area-in-tripa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/socp-rescues-sumatran-orangutan-from-isolated-forest-area-in-tripa\/","title":{"rendered":"SOCP Rescues Sumatran Orangutan from Isolated Forest Area in Tripa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3522\" style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ed_Transfer-to-car-and-travelling-crate.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3522\" title=\"ed_Transfer to car and travelling crate\" src=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ed_Transfer-to-car-and-travelling-crate-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orangutan is rescued<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia \u2013\u00a0 A critically\u00a0 endangered Sumatran orangutan was rescued from an isolated forest area in\u00a0 western Indonesia where palm oil companies have been illegally destroying the\u00a0 environment, a conservation group said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The adult male orangutan, named Seuneam, had been trapped for several days in\u00a0 an area surrounded by palm oil plantations and was isolated from the rest of the\u00a0 surviving orangutan population in Tripa swamp in the Nagan Raya district. It was\u00a0 found and safely evacuated over the weekend, the <a href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/projects\/socp\/\">Sumatran Orangutan Conservation\u00a0 Program (SOCP)<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tripa swamp was home to around 3,000 orangutans in the 1990s but now has\u00a0 only about 200. Still, the population is the densest in the world with about\u00a0 eight per square kilometer (20 per square mile), the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Tripa is a legally protected area, but several<a href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/threats-to-orangutans\/\"> palm oil <\/a>companies are under\u00a0 investigation for breaking the law, and the permit for one plantation has been\u00a0 canceled, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are always happy to see a successful rescue take place, but these activities are expensive, logistically challenging and also dangerous, for both staff and the orangutans themselves,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/from-the-forest-jantho-aceh-besar-sumatra-2011\/#more-2195\">Ian Singleton <\/a>of the group said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not the orangutans that should be leaving this area, it is the palm oil companies who are breaking the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are an estimated 6,600 Sumatran orangutans remaining in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on FoxNews.com and can be read at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2012\/10\/15\/adult-male-sumatran-orangutan-rescued-from-isolated-forest-area-in-western\/#ixzz29Tdt4vTK\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2012\/10\/15\/adult-male-sumatran-orangutan-rescued-from-isolated-forest-area-in-western\/#ixzz29Tdt4vTK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OC edit by Tom Mills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia \u2013\u00a0 A critically\u00a0 endangered Sumatran orangutan was rescued from an isolated forest area in\u00a0 western Indonesia where palm oil companies have been illegally destroying the\u00a0 environment, a conservation group said Monday. 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