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...once said the apes might be extinct in a matter of decades; their increasingly frantic warnings now spoke of just years. Orangutans need virgin forest, and even senior officials acknowledged that all virgin forest in Sumatra would probably be gone in five years. The last primary forest on neighboring Borneo would disappear in a decade, predicted Walhi, the country's leading environmental group...
...development, the orange apes were on the verge of a grisly distinction, in danger of becoming the first ape to disappear from the wild. Perhaps 5,000-6,000 survive on Sumatra, half the number that existed as recently as 1998. There are 10,000-15,000 on Borneo, a decline of one-third in the same period. "Orangutan survival totally depends on the survival of the tropical forest," says Birute Galdikas. "It's as simple as that." Galdikas has been studying orangutans since the late 1960s, when she was dispatched to Indonesia by Louis Leakey, the world-renowned anthropologist...
...Nobody knows this better than the six young women who are surrogate mothers to orangutan babies brought in for rehabilitation at the Balikpapan Orangutan Foundation on the west coast of Borneo. The orangutans, most of whom have been confiscated from illegal wildlife traders, some of them as far afield as Japan and Taiwan, are often in a state of shock, having just seen their mothers killed by poachers. "There's no difference between human babies and the orangutans," says Wiwiek, an open-faced 24-year-old surrogate mother dressed in her working clothes, a white jumpsuit and green rubber boots...
...Japanese affairs by showing the Yanks that Japan was a force. He hoped a quick victory in Hawaii would prompt the U.S. to petition for peace in the Pacific, which would allow expansionist Japan, already on the move in China, to pursue oil and other supplies in Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Japan felt it was under a tight deadline for invading those places. When it leapt, it did not want America butting...
...Sampit As a wave of ethnic violence that claimed at least 469 lives in Borneo came to an end, Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri comforted victims and indicated that declaration of a civil emergency-a step short of martial law-was not required. After 10 days of attacks on Madurese settlers by Borneo's native Dayaks, security forces brought the conflict to an end. The Dayaks have long sought to drive out the Madurese, contending that they were taking Dayak jobs and land...