- Welcome from Dr. Gary Shapiro
- Click to learn more about the World Tour in the USA
- The Bornean recipients and others of the Orangutan Caring Scholarship 2012
- Mobile Education & Conservation Unit (MECU) Team 1: 2011
- The Sumatran recipients of the Orangutan Caring Scholarship 2013
- Adult female Bornean orangutan and infant
- Adult male Bornean orangutan
- Greening of Wedding ceremony
- Orangutan Caring Club presentation at school
- Abdul, subadult male Sumatran orangutan: killed by a local farmer
- Adolescent female Bornean orangutan in tree
- Juvenile Bornean orangutan in tree
- Gary Shapiro and Princess orangutan in Tanjung Puting National Park
- MECU program: assessing young trees at a botanical nursery
- MECU program: preparing the young trees for transport
- MECU program: choosing young trees to plant
- MECU program: distributing young trees
- MECU program: carrying young trees to a planting area
- MECU program: carrying young trees to a planting area
- MECU program: preparing the ground for planting
- MECU program: preparing the ground for planting
- MECU program: tree successfully planted
- MECU program: satisfaction after planting a tree
- MECU program: villagers and Caring Club members
- MECU program: villagers and Caring Club members
- MECU program: cleaning the MECU vehicle
- MECU program: cleaning the MECU vehicle
- MECU program: lunchtime after finishing work
- MECU program: lunchtime at the river
- MECU program: more trees needing to be planted
In landmark ruling, Indonesia's indigenous people win right to millions of hectares of forest
17 May 2013 - Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com - In a landmark ruling, Indonesia's Constitutional Court has invalidated the Indonesian government's claim to millions of hectares of forest land, potentially giving indigenous and local communities the right to manage their customary forests, reports Mongabay-Indonesia.
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