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A summary of the descriptive data relating to the major forest regions already indicates that a current meta-population of orang-utans is badly fragmented and no more than a relic of the past. The future looks ominous. Continued, minimally controlled timber exploitation, large-scale conversion, encroachment, arson and the poaching of timber and apes are expected to increase their combined impact, unless major counter-actions are undertaken.
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Although former reports often included areas which were ‘proposed’ for conservation, these are considered here to be meaningless because they may give a false impression of security.
Since 1994, American fast-food corporations have been establishing themselves in Southeast Asia, and are looking for a local ‘hamburger connection’, thus facilitating the conversion of rainforest into cattle ranches, as happened in Central America and the Amazon during the 1980s.
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Rijksen, H.D., Meijaard, E. (1999). Evaluation of Survey Data. In: Our vanishing relative. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9020-9_10
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