{"id":6318,"date":"2016-12-20T19:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T03:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2016-12-20T19:47:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T03:47:01","slug":"conservation-perspective-indonesias-forests-are-key-for-saving-orangutans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/conservation-perspective-indonesias-forests-are-key-for-saving-orangutans\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Perspective: Indonesia\u2019s Forests Are Key For Saving Orangutans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn1.pri.org\/sites\/default\/files\/borneo-forest-change.gif\" width=\"866\" height=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Carolyn Beeler for Public Radio International PRI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Edward Tang was a boy, he used to hunt durian fruit in the jungle near his house in western Borneo.<\/p>\n<p>On expeditions into the forest, he\u2019d often see orangutans swinging from branch to branch above his head.<\/p>\n<p>Tang is 40 now, and as a conservation educator, he still spends a lot of time in the forest. But he almost never sees orangutans anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impact of forest destruction in Indonesia has been immense,\u201d Tang says.<\/p>\n<p>The sprawling archipelago nation of Indonesia has lost about a quarter of its forests in the past 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Orangutans, which live in the wild only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, have been some of the most visible victims of that deforestation.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This excerpt from a news article appeared in and is courtesy of PRI and can be read in its entirety <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2016-12-20\/indonesia-s-forests-are-key-saving-orangutans-and-slowing-climate-change\"><strong>here<\/strong>.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Carolyn Beeler for Public Radio International PRI When Edward Tang was a boy, he used to hunt durian fruit in the jungle near his house in western Borneo. 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