TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rijksen,H.D.
AU  - Meijaard,E.
TI  - Our vanishing relative : : the status of wild orang-utans at the close of the twentieth century 
SN  - 079235754X
U1  - 599.883 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Dordrecht, Boston
PB  - Kluwer Academic Publishers
KW  - Orangutan
KW  - Endangered species
KW  - Especies en peligro
N1  - Una publicación de Tropenbos; Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 443-477) e índice; Acknowledgements. Summary. Section I: The orang-utan. Introduction. A history of the orang-utan's distribution. Ecology and natural history. A history of hunting and poaching. History of orang-utan conservation. Rehabilitation of orang-utans. Section II: Orang-utan distribution. Survey methods. The present distribution. Evaluation of survey data. Section III: The decline. Summary of survey results. Discussion. Section IV: The future of the wild orang-utan. Prospects of survival. The orang-utan survival programme. Section V: Appendices and references. Appendix I: Vernacular names. Appendix II: What's in a name? Appendix III: IUCN criteria. Appendix IV: Estimates of orang-utan numbers per fragment (Table XXVII). Appendix V: Research at Ketambe (Aceh, Sumatra) (Table XXVIII). References. Index.
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