Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Project
Since 1996 HUTAN, a French grassroots non-profit organisation founded and run by primotologist Dr. Isabelle Lackman and wildlife veterinarian Dr. Marc Ancrenaz, has been working to develop and implement solutions to conserve the orangutans in Sabah. In 1998, HUTAN together with the Sabah Wildlife Department established the Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Project. A small conservation centre was built in the village of Sukau in the Kinabatangan wetlands.
Initially it conducted studies and an in-depth stakeholders' consultation process to identify the complex threats faced by the orangutans. Its findings were used by the Sabah Wildlife Department to develop and implement a sound and efficient orangutan conservation strategy, first for the Lower Kinabatangan region and later for Sabah. It now has 40 staff from the Kinabatangan local community, working in collaboration with a network of Sabahan partners including government agencies, Non-Governmental-Organisations and research institutions as well as private stakeholders.
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