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	Sumatran Rhinoceros - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sumatran Rhinoceros is the smallest extant rhinoceros species, as well as the one with the most fur, which allows it to survive at very high altitudes in Borneo and Sumatra.
		The cervical vertebrae of the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis sumatrensis).
		Precopulatory behaviour in Sumatran rhinoceros at Zoo Melaka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sumatran_Rhinoceros (596 words)

	Sumatran Rhinoceros - Dicerorhinus sumatrensis
		The Sumatran rhinoceros is a small, hairy rhinoceros which survives in limited numbers in pockets of Indonesian and Malaysian rain forests.
		Sumatran rhinos are solitary animals who only come together to breed.
		Breeding of captive Sumatran rhinos has shown that the female will not come into estrus until she senses the nearness of a male.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /sumatran_rhino.htm (707 words)

	SOCP / UK / News / SOCP
		In Indonesia and Malaysia, new plantations are often established in newly cleared rainforest and peat-swamp forests (sometimes with an intermediate period of logging), instead of on degraded land or disused agricultural land, such as old rice paddies or old plantations.
		Large rainforest animals, such as elephants, tigers, and orangutans, need to be able to move over large distances under forest cover to find water and food; young adults need to leave the family and establish their own territories in order to mate successfully.
		Between 1998 and 2001, at least 64 Sumatran tigers were reportedly killed (100), a significant portion of the critically endangered population.
	www.sumatranorangutan.com /site_mawas/UK/NEWS/diasDB/OTHER_news/2005_2/palm_oil_ALL_1.htm (11362 words)

	Foogle Business - Rainforest Loss - Rainforest Pictures - Sahara Supposition - Global Environment - One Acre of ...
		Rainforests usually occur in regions where there is a high annual rainfall of generally more than 1,800 mm (70 inches) and a hot and steamy climate.
		Rainforests may also be found in areas of the tropics in which a dry season occurs, such as the “dry rainforests” of northeastern Australia.
		Where altitude increases along the borders of equatorial rainforests, the vegetation is replaced by montane forests, as in the highlands of New Guinea, the Gotel Mountains of Cameroon, and in the Ruwenzori mass of Central Africa.
	www.thesahara.net /rainforest.htm (5252 words)

	Rainforest Animals : Sumatran Rhinoceros
		The Sumatran Rhinoceros is not the biggest tiger in the world, Its cousin the Siberian tiger is the largest tiger.
		The body of the Sumatran Rhinoceros is broad with legs that are slender.
		The Sumatran Rhinoceros is a nocturnal and greatly feared predator.
	www.animalport.com /rainforest-animals/list/Sumatran-Rhinoceros.html (453 words)

	16/2/2006 -- Prices soar for Sumatran tiger bone used in Asian medicines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Prices for Sumatran tiger bones used in traditional Asian medicines have more than tripled in the past two years because of declining numbers of the endangered animals, an environmental group said Wednesday.
		Sumatran tigers, which now number less than 700, are under increasing threat from habitat destruction and trafficking syndicates that sell their bones for traditional medicines.
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	www.rainforestportal.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=52542 (373 words)

	Sumatran Orangutan Society
		The Sumatran orangutan (pongo pygmaeus abelii) differs genetically and physically from the Bornean orangutan (pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus), and the population is smaller.
		There are estimated to be only about 7,300 Sumatran orangutans left, and a proposed network of roads through the Gunung Leuser National Park, the largest area of rainforest where they live, further threatens their survival.
		With their jungle environment burnt and logged and their food sources lost, the Sumatran orangutan population is declining by as many as 1000 per year.
	www.orangutans-sos.org /orangcrisis.php (623 words)

	Wild Tiger - Conservation of Indonesian wildlife and rainforests by STCP
		The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is critically endangered according to the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), with approximately 400-500 individuals surviving in the wild, and is the last surviving subspecies of tiger in Indonesia.
		The Sumatran Tiger Conservation Program is a collaborative program of the Indonesian Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation, Ministry of Forestry, the Sumatran Tiger Trust of the UK and The Tiger Foundation of Canada.
		The Sumatran Tiger Conservation Program is a collaboration between the Sumatran Tiger Trust (UK), The Tiger Foundation (Canada) and the Department of Forestry (Republic of Indonesia).
	wild-tiger.blogspot.com (5562 words)

	Sumatran Tiger
		Sumatran Tigers are very isolated, found only on the small island of Sumatra in western Indonesia.
		The Sumatran Tiger likes to hide in the underbrush and pounce on its prey, using its long, powerful legs, jaws, and claws to catch and kill their chosen meal.
		Sumatran Tiger females reach full maturity at about three to four years of age, and the males are sexually mature at about four of five years of age.
	www.indonesianfauna.com /sumatrantiger.php (677 words)

	SUMATRAN RHINOCEROUS
		Sumatran rhinos once widespread throughout mainland Southeast Asia from North Burma to the Malay Peninsular, the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, now known to exist only in Malaya, Borneo and Sumatra.
		The Sumatran rhinoceros is the smallest of the five existing species of rhinoceros.
		The Sumatran and the Javan rhinos are rainforest dwellers with a larger intake of fruits, more than the other species.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/Vines/5257/gdc6.html (967 words)

	Insect in Kerinci Seblat National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The rainforest is the kingdom of the insects and without them it would cease to function.
		As an area of equatorial rainforest Kerinci Seblat is in the centre of insect diversity.
		A small beetle found crawling along your arm during a walk in the Kerinci rainforest is very likely a species new to science, and one that you may have been the first person to consciously look at.
	www.kerinci.org /insect.html (1307 words)

	Tenders Direct: News Item
		Greenpeace has alleged that timber from trashed Indonesian rainforests is being used in new EU buildings in Brussels, threatening the survival of the orang-utan and the Sumatran tiger.
		These rainforests should be home to orang-utans and tigers, not Brussels bureaucrats in plush offices.
		This rainforest is a haven for wildlife, with the longest list of endangered species in the world, including both the Sumatran tiger and the orang-utan, whose numbers have halved in just 10 years.
	www.tendersdirect.co.uk /news/PPF/ID/15161/Shownews.asp (431 words)

	Palm Oil Report ~ Center for Science in the Public Interest
		Thanks in part to a palm oil trade propped up by indifferent corporations and authoritarian regimes, the rainforest habitats of the last remaining Sumatran orangutans, tigers, and rhinoceroses are being destroyed.
		Oil palm is grown as an industrial plantation crop, often (especially in Indonesia) on newly cleared rainforest or peat-swamp forests rather than on already degraded land or disused agricultural land.
		Five mammals exemplify the impending disaster: the Sumatran tiger, Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, Asian elephant, and Sumatran rhinoceros.
	www.cspinet.org /palmoilreport/index.html (873 words)

	healthy news - HealthWorld Online
		Sumatran tiger: The Sumatran tiger is one of only five remaining tiger subspecies, reduced from eight by recent extinctions.
		Sumatran rhinoceros: The two biggest threats to the Sumatran rhino are illegal hunting and habitat loss.
		CSPI, Environmental Defense, the International Primate Protection League, Rainforest Relief, WALHI/Friends of the Earth Indonesia, and a dozen other organizations from around the world are urging the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and other international aid agencies not to fund oil-palm development projects.
	www.healthy.net /scr/news.asp?Id=7692 (922 words)

	Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme - Protection, Conservation, Sumatra, Tropical Rainforest, Endangered Species
		To date, the Wanariset programme has had considerable success in improving the welfare of confiscated Bornean orangutans and has already established a new 'wild' population of Bornean orangutans in the Meratus range and a second orangutan quarantine centre at Nyaru Menteng, near Palangkaraya in central Kalimantan.
		To improve the situation for the Sumatran orangutan, the PanEco Foundation and its project partners, the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) and the Foundation for a Sustainable Ecosystem (YEL) have taken the lead by establishing a similar programme here in Sumatra.
		The park is also the largest protected area of lowland forest in Sumatra and at the time did not have an extant wild orangutan population.
	www.sumatranorangutan.com /site_mawas/UK/BACKGROUND/pag/back_SOCP.htm (371 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Fisherman driven to illegal logging as pulp factory poisons river
		The loggers unhitched their cargo of tropical hardwood freshly stripped from the rapidly shrinking rainforest and headed back to the jungle for another load.
		It arrived in the area 17 years ago with plans for an environmentally friendly, sustainable pulp and paper factory that would be a boon to the remote region of Indonesia.
		Though Indonesia accounts for only 1% of the world's land area, it is home to 12% of the world's mammal species, and almost a fifth of all bird species and reptile and amphibian species.
	www.guardian.co.uk /paper/story/0%2C10581%2C512597%2C00.html (751 words)

	Save the Sumatran rainforest - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Sumatra's rainforests are so rich in wildlife that they are a global treasure.
		Without action to conserve these forests, magnificent birds such as the rhinocerous hornbill, red-naped trogon, Storm's stork and rufous-collared kingfisher will be pushed to the brink of extinction and may be lost altogether.
		The lowland rainforests, where the trees are very accessible to loggers, are especially under threat.
	www.rspb.org.uk /international/conservation/sumatra/index.asp (398 words)

	Indonesia clears the way for rainforest rescue
		As little as 800,000 hectares now remain, and the World Bank has predicted that all Sumatra’s lowland rainforest will have been cleared by the end of this decade, unless there are immediate and fundamental changes in policies and management.
		In 1994, 17 Sumatran species were regarded as globally threatened (classified as Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List), with 27 Near Threatened.
		Much of the remaining Sumatran lowland rainforest has been designated "production forest", set aside for private companies to exploit by logging and clearance for oil palm or timber-pulp plantations.
	www.birdlife.org /news/news/2004/06/indonesia_decree.html (560 words)

	Sumatran Tiger Conservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Only the Sumatran tiger remains, with viable populations restricted to just a few protected areas on the island.
		Collaborative law enforcement: WCS operates a Wildlife Crimes Unit in southern Sumatra to monitor and investigate trade in Sumatran tigers and other protected species in the area, provide legal support in the prosecution of wildlife law offenders, and promote awareness of prohibitions against tiger trade.
		Promote partners in Sumatran tiger conservation, including the Indonesian Department of tiger conservation through partnership: We plan to bring together Forestry and other local and international organizations working on Sumatra.
	www.wcs.org /international/Asia/Sumatra/sumatrantiger (703 words)

	Press Release ::: El Paso Zoo :::
		The Sumatran rhino resembles the hairy rhino that went extinct during the last Ice Age.
		Rainforests have higher rainfall and are very diverse in plant and animals species.
		Many protected rainforests in Africa are protected in name only because of unstable governments and civil wars.
	www.elpasozoo.org /press032406c.htm (1560 words)

	Central Hub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Themed as a Sumatran sanctuary immersed in the rainforest, the Hub is the centre of SEAR and the main gathering space for visitors.
		The Hub is a clearing in the rainforest, dotted with palm trees and with sporadic vegetation and has a floor to mimic compacted earth.
		Themed in Sumatran architectural vernacular, the Pavilion is the centre of activity and provides views to the tiger underwater exhibit and an up-close encounter with the Orangutans.
	www.adelaidezoo.com.au /immersion.php?id=308 (520 words)

	The Orangutan Conservancy: Orangutans & the Rainforest: Their Rainforest Home
		Every time an acre of rainforest is burned or chopped down, we might lose a cure for cancer or AIDS.
		Using rainforest materials in a wise manner is called "sustainable development", which means we take only what rainforest plants we need, and leave enough behind to regrow, regenerate, and repopulate, so that humans can benefit from these materials for many years to come.
		It also means that we leave enough of the rainforest behind so that orangutans and other rainforest animals will have a safe and secure home with all of the materials they need to survive well into the future.
	www.orangutan.com /orangutans_rainforest.html (1366 words)

	The Prince of Wales - News & Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Prince of Wales has lent his support to a campaign to save Indonesian rainforest from destruction, and said that he did not want to be accused by his grandchildren of not trying to help.
		The Prince said rainforests were being destroyed at an astonishing rate for timber, paper and palm oil and said: “I don’t want any of my grandchildren - or yours for that matter - to accuse me of not doing anything about it when, in fact, we could do something about it.
		The land will be used to restore and maintain its globally-important lowland rainforest for the benefit of people, birds and wider biodiversity, and will be used as a model for sustainable tropical rainforest management in Indonesia and worldwide.
	www.princeofwales.gov.uk /news/2004/06.jun/birdlife.php (568 words)

	ThinkQuest : Library Search
		We want to give people information on topics including what lives in the rainforests, what horrible things are happening in the rainforests, and some small things you can do to help out.
		A rainforest is a gigantic tropical forest with many living things and is sometimes known as a jungle.
		They look at each rainforest covering the topics of location, animals, plants, people and culture, and preservation and management of these renewal resources.
	www.thinkquest.org /library/search.html?search_text=rainforests (889 words)

	Tiger snaps back at hidden camera - earth - 15 March 2005 - New Scientist
		A camera hidden in the Sumatran rainforest has survived the rage of a tiger attack unscathed, and captured some fascinating images of the nocturnal assault.
		Thirty infrared-activated camera traps are being used by the WWF to survey the range and number of tigers in the Tesso Nilo National Park.
		Formerly used for logging, the 550-square-kilometre patch of lowland rainforest was declared a national park by the Indonesian government in 2004.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7152 (377 words)

	Rainforests
		While Indonesia houses the most extensive rainforest cover in all of Asia, its natural forest area is rapidly being reduced by logging--most of which is illegal.
		A team of American and Brazilian researchers using radiocarbon dating methods to study tree growth in the world's largest tropical rainforest found that up to half of all trees greater than 10 centimeters in diameter are more than 300 years old.
		Some of the trees are 750 to 1,000 years old says Susan Trumbore, a professor of Earth system science at University of California at Irvine and one of the authors of the study.
	www.mongabay.com /home.htm (2659 words)

	JRS Indonesia: Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Nevertheless, the IDPs in the park are not at ease.
		Mount Leuser National Park is a part of the threatened Sumatran rain forest and is the home of the near to extinct Sumatran tigers and elephants.
		The island’s wildlife has for years been exploited by scrupulous loggers and hunters, prompting the Indonesian government to conserve the forest in the park with funding from the European Union.
	www.jrs.or.id /en/archives/news/000097.php (724 words)

	Welcome to Fossil Rim Wildlife Center :: Glen Rose, Texas
		A lot of changes are forthcoming in the captive management of Sumatran rhinoceros with the hopes of making significant advancements with a thus far struggling program.
		Aside from the captive breeding program the sanctuary is situated in the heart of some of the last lowland rainforest left in Sumatra.
		I believe and would like to suggest that perhaps the last hope for the Sumatran rhino (and many other species today) lies not in any zoo where high tech procedures capture the attention of well-intentioned donors, but rather in the villages and town meeting halls across Indonesia and the globe.
	www.fossilrim.com /conservation/journal_robin_0505.html (599 words)

	The wildlife - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Harapan Rainforest is so rich in wildlife that it can be described as one of the world's 'biodiversity hotspots'.
		The Sumatran tiger, one of the world's rarest mammals, makes its home in the area, along with many other endangered species.
		There are about 20 Sumatran tigers in the rainforest, out of a world population of less than 300.
	www.rspb.org.uk /international/conservation/sumatra/wildlife.asp (357 words)

	Titan Arum: August 2004 Blooming
		Sumatran villagers stand next to the fruiting stalk of a Titan Arum.
		This plant was located some 20 miles north of Sipirok, West Sumata Province, in cut-over rainforest, in the "backyard" of a small village.
		Hetterscheid opens a Titan Arum flower in a Sumatran rainforest.
	www.news.wisc.edu /titanarum2004/history.html (226 words)

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