KOTA KINABALU: An alliance of oil palm growers, businesses and conservation practitioners – Pongo Alliance – is developing guidelines for best management practices to support co-existence of Sabah’s wild orang utan population.
"Measures can be put in place to support co-existence of the wild orang utan where only 10% of the half-million-hectare land area is forest,” said Pongo Alliance Kinabatangan project director Dr Felicity Oram.
Pongo also aims to support sustainable palm oil production that includes safe spaces for wild orang utans outside of protected areas. "This means leaving wild orang utans wherever they are in the landscape and developing better ways to support the adaptations of these animals thus far," she added. The sponsorship under a two-year agreement titled"Creation of a Human and Orangutan Coexistence Landscape in Kinabatangan”, is in line with YSD environment pillar’s focus area of protecting and preserving vulnerable and endangered species.
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