Our vanishing relative : the status of wild orang-utans at the close of the twentieth century /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rijksen, H. D.
Corporate Author:	World Wildlife Fund
Other Authors:	Meijaard, E.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Wageningen, Netherlands : Dordrecht ; Boston : Tropenbos ; Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1999]
Subjects:	Pongo pygmaeus. Conservation of Natural Resources.

Table of Contents:

Sec. 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-utan
Sec. II. Orang-utan distribution
Survey methods
The present distribution
Evaluation of survey data
Sec. III. The decline
Summary of survey data
Discussion
Sec. IV. The future of the wild orang-utan
Prospects of survival
The orang-utan survival programme