Kamis, 09 Agustus 2012

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JULY 12, 2012

Siamang release

 

Bonne nouvelle pour les siamangs : Kalaweit Sumatra se prépare à relâcher une dizaine de familles à la fin de l’année ou au début de l’année prochaine à Sumatra ! Une première mondiale!
Kalaweit Sumatra is working to release 10 siamang families (first time ever) at the end of this year or in the beginning of next year in Sumatra !
Kalaweit Sumatra sedang mempersiapkan pelepasan sekitar 10 keluarga siamang  (untuk pertama kali di dunia) di ahkir tahun ini atau di awal tahun depan.

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JULY 1, 2012

20 years

 

Il y a juste 20 ans (Juin 1992) je rencontrais mes premiers gibbons… Si nous ne célébrons pas vraiment cette date, c’est pour moi l’occasion de remercier toutes les organisations et les personnes qui soutiennent Kalaweit.  Grace à vous, mon rêve est devenu ma Vie, et je peux continuer (après 14 ans déjà en Indonésie) avec mon équipe, à travailler au quotidien pour sauver mes amis gibbons et protéger des espaces forestiers. Un grand merci.
Twenty years ago (June 1992) I met my first gibbon… Even if we are not celebrating this date, it’s the occasion for me to thank you all organizations and people who are supporting Kalaweit. Because of you,  I can (still after 14 years in Indonesia) working every single day with my team to save gibbons and the forest. Thank you.
Dua puluh tahunyang lalu (Juni 1992) saya bertemu owa-owa yang pertama dalam hidup saya. Walau pun ulang tahun ini tidak di rayakan, ini tetap menjadi kesempatan untuk berterima kasih kepada semua pihak yang membantu Yayasan Kalaweit. Dengan dukungan anda, setelah 14 tahun di Indonesia, saya masih bisa bekerja setiap hari untuk menyelamatkan owa-owa dan melindungi hutan. Terima kasih.

Organisations qui soutiennent Kalaweit  / Partners: 
 

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SECAS, One voice, Jardin BIO, BioParc Doué, Parc de Clères, AFDPZ,  Zoo de Saint Martin la Plaine, La Boissiére du doré, Aves France, Zoo de la Palmyre, Zoo de la Londe, Planète sauvage, La ferme des crocodiles, Zoo de Sanary-Bandol, Le Parc des félins,Touroparc, Cerza Conservation, Zoo de Trégameur, Veolia, SOS crocodiles, Zoo des sables, Zoo de Lyon, Le parc de Gramat, Zoo de la Barben, Timba Conservation, Zoo de Jurques, Parc du Reynou,  La Bourbansais, Arcus Foundation, Zoo de la flèche, Splio, Zoo d’Asson, Parc du Reynou, Tendua, Escales,AB1, Beur FM, Animaux, 1% pour la Planete, Lush, MCM, etc...

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JUNE 29, 2012

AFP video and article

 


Video from AFP about the Kalaweit Radio (in French) :
Video de l'AFP sur la radio Kalaweit : 
Video dari AFP tentang Radio Kalaweit (dalam bahasa Perancis) :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrtgij_a-borneo-une-radio-branchee-sauve-les-animaux-menaces_news?start=2

Article about The Kalaweit Radio (in english) : 
Article sur la radio Kalaweit (en anglais) : 
Artikel tentang Radio Kalaweit (dalam bahasa inggris): 
http://www.france24.com/en/20120628-funky-gibbons-championed-indonesian-radio

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Kamis, 02 Agustus 2012

Hunting of flying foxes and perception of disease risk in Indonesian Borneo part - 3


Written by Paul Racey

In an important paper in press in Biological Conservation, Mark Harrison and colleagues describe how questionnaire surveys of hunters and market vendors in Central Kalimantan revealed decreasing availability of flying foxes, from which it can be inferred that populations are declining. This trend looks likely to continue and Kalimantan, like other parts of the Old World tropics, will lose the ecological services that these bats provide. They are purchased for food and in the mistaken belief that their consumption relieves the symptoms of asthma. Hunters and vendors are frequently bitten and are unaware of the risks of contracting diseases from the bats.
Mark E. Harrison, Susan M Cheyne, Fiteria Darma, Dwi Angan Ribowo, Suwido H. Limin, Matthew J. Streubig (2011 - in press). Hunting of flying foxes and perception of disease risk in Indonesian Borneo. Biological Conservation.
Email M.J.Struebig@kent.ac.uk for a copy. Newspaper articles referred to in the paper have been translated by Sephy Noerfahmy and Matt Struebig for us, and we will be posting a revised copy of the questionnaire used by the team in the coming weeks.
This is the first publication from a series of recent research projects in the Old World tropics investigating hunters of bats and other bushmeat species and their vendors and how the supply chain operates. Another has been completed in Ghana with reference to Eidolon helvum and another nears completion in Madagascar. A study in Brazzaville in which I was involved appeared recently in two adjacent papers by Robert Mbete and colleagues in the on-line journal Tropical Conservation Science (which you can download for free here ). The surprising aspect of this study is the absence of bats from the comprehensive list of bushmeat consumed, despite direct evidence of bat consumption in Congo from others sources. So it looks as if the supply chain for bats differs from that for other kinds of bushmeat.
Note from Tigga: Mark Harrison and his team have made revised versions of the questionnaires available - please see the attachments, and the notes that go with them. They are happy for people to use and adapt, but please be sure to cite them!