Global outcry as petitioners demand no mining expansion in orangutan habitat

Global outcry as petitioners demand no mining expansion in orangutan habitat

JAKARTA — Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition calling on U.K. multinational Jardine Matheson to cancel its plan to expand deeper into Indonesia’s Batang Toru Forest, the only known habitat of the world’s most threatened great ape, the Tapanuli orangutan. Jardines is the parent company of Indonesian conglomerate Astra International, which in turn is the parent of Agincourt Resources, the company operating the Martabe gold mine in norther…

THE RETURN OF MENTOS: A MOTHER’S JOURNEY IN BUKIT BATIKAP

At the end of 2024, our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team encountered an old face in the Bukit Batikap Protected Forest. After years of being untracked since her release in 2015, the female orangutan Mentos was finally identified again. Even more special, she was not alone—Mentos was spotted with her offspring, later named Melly! Mentos was one of five orangutans released in 2015 alongside Maha, Jatihan, Compost, and Dewi. Since then, she had r…

Global outcry as petitioners demand no mining expansion in orangutan habitat - EnviroLink Network

JAKARTA — Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition calling on U.K. multinational Jardine Matheson to cancel its plan to expand deeper into Indonesia’s Batang Toru Forest, the only known habitat of the world’s most threatened great ape, the Tapanuli orangutan. Jardines is the parent company of Indonesian conglomerate Astra International, which in turn is the parent of Agincourt Resources, the company operating the Martabe gold mine in northern