Wild and Valuable? Tourist Values for Orang-utan Conservation in Sarawak
Fluffy, orange and endearing, orang-utans have won the hearts of people all over the world. However, all sub-species are endangered in the wild with the Bornean orang-utan population having declined by more than 50% over the past 60 years. Fewer than 2,000 wild orang-utans remain in Sarawak with nea...
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| author | Kerstin K, Zander Sing Tyan, Pang Christina, Jinam Andrew Alek, Tuen Stephen T, Garnett |
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| description | Fluffy, orange and endearing, orang-utans have won the hearts of people all over the world. However, all sub-species are endangered in the wild with the Bornean orang-utan population having declined by more than 50% over the past 60 years. Fewer than 2,000 wild orang-utans remain in Sarawak with nearly all truly wild ones confined to a remote site on the Indonesian border. Yet each year thousands of tourists and local Sarawak people see orang-utans semi-wild in a reserve or captive in a rehabilitation centre. |
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| spelling | unimas-69992022-01-26T01:36:07Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6999/ Wild and Valuable? Tourist Values for Orang-utan Conservation in Sarawak Kerstin K, Zander Sing Tyan, Pang Christina, Jinam Andrew Alek, Tuen Stephen T, Garnett QL Zoology Fluffy, orange and endearing, orang-utans have won the hearts of people all over the world. However, all sub-species are endangered in the wild with the Bornean orang-utan population having declined by more than 50% over the past 60 years. Fewer than 2,000 wild orang-utans remain in Sarawak with nearly all truly wild ones confined to a remote site on the Indonesian border. Yet each year thousands of tourists and local Sarawak people see orang-utans semi-wild in a reserve or captive in a rehabilitation centre. Medknow Publications 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6999/1/Kerstin%20K..pdf Kerstin K, Zander and Sing Tyan, Pang and Christina, Jinam and Andrew Alek, Tuen and Stephen T, Garnett (2014) Wild and Valuable? Tourist Values for Orang-utan Conservation in Sarawak. Conservation and Society, 12 (1). pp. 27-42. ISSN 0975-3133. http://www.conservationandsociety.org/text.asp?2014/12/1/27/132126 DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.132126 |
| spellingShingle | QL Zoology Kerstin K, Zander Sing Tyan, Pang Christina, Jinam Andrew Alek, Tuen Stephen T, Garnett Wild and Valuable? Tourist Values for Orang-utan Conservation in Sarawak |
| title | Wild and Valuable? Tourist Values for Orang-utan Conservation in Sarawak |
| title_full | Wild and Valuable? Tourist Values for Orang-utan Conservation in Sarawak |
| title_fullStr | Wild and Valuable? Tourist Values for Orang-utan Conservation in Sarawak |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wild and Valuable? Tourist Values for Orang-utan Conservation in Sarawak |
| title_short | Wild and Valuable? Tourist Values for Orang-utan Conservation in Sarawak |
| title_sort | wild and valuable? tourist values for orang-utan conservation in sarawak |
| topic | QL Zoology |
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