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Our Vanishing Relative: The Status of Wild OrangUtans at the Close of the Twentieth Century,Used
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In the 1960s, it was believed that no more than about 4,000 orangutans remained in the wild. Consequently, IUCN The World Conservation Union declared the ape an endangered species, demanding its worldwide protection. Nevertheless, the orangutan today faces extinction because it is dependent on a rainforest habitat that is rapidly being demolished due to human greed, and a growing human population.Rijksen was among the first to make a detailed study of the ape in the wild, emerging as an authority on orangutan conservation. In the late 1980s he became so alarmed by local rumours of the rapid decline of wild orangutans that he initiated the study leading to this book. Meijaard conducted the ambitious, islandspanning surveys in Borneo and Sumatra to reveal the ape's whereabouts.This is the story of their findings. It is the first comprehensive study of the ape's distribution and status based on a wealth of firsthand field data, and a frank, disturbing account of a mixture of good intentions, ignorance and greed, spelling doom for our Asian relative.Nevertheless, the authors emphasise that the orangutan can survive. A realistic plan to save the ape, and with it thousands of unique wild animals and plants, does exist. It is the authors' hope that Our Vanishing Relative, so urgent and eloquent in its description of the deadly net of problems descending over our helpless relative, will awaken attention and empathy in order to safeguard the future of the orangutan.
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