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It’s Not Just Conflict That Motivates Killing of Orangutans

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, October 2013
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Title
It’s Not Just Conflict That Motivates Killing of Orangutans
Published in
PLOS ONE, October 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0075373
Pubmed ID
Authors

Jacqueline T. Davis, Kerrie Mengersen, Nicola K. Abram, Marc Ancrenaz, Jessie A. Wells, Erik Meijaard

Abstract

We investigated why orangutans are being killed in Kalimantan, Indonesia, and the role of conflict in these killings. Based on an analysis of interview data from over 5,000 respondents in over 450 villages, we also assessed the socio-ecological factors associated with conflict and non-conflict killings. Most respondents never kill orangutans. Those who reported having personally killed an orangutan primarily did so for non-conflict reasons; for example, 56% of these respondents said that the reason they had killed an orangutan was to eat it. Of the conflict-related reasons for killing, the most common reasons orangutans were killed was fear of orangutans or in self-defence. A similar pattern was evident among reports of orangutan killing by other people in the villages. Regression analyses indicated that religion and the percentage of intact forest around villages were the strongest socio-ecological predictors of whether orangutans were killed for conflict or non-conflict related reasons. Our data indicate that between 44,170 and 66,570 orangutans were killed in Kalimantan within the respondents' active hunting lifetimes: between 12,690 and 29,024 for conflict reasons (95%CI) and between 26,361 and 41,688 for non-conflict reasons (95% CI). These findings confirm that habitat protection alone will not ensure the survival of orangutans in Indonesian Borneo, and that effective reduction of orangutan killings is urgently needed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 2%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 164 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 31 18%
Student > Master 27 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 15%
Researcher 23 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 5%
Other 25 15%
Unknown 31 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 56 33%
Environmental Science 44 26%
Social Sciences 6 4%
Psychology 4 2%
Unspecified 4 2%
Other 20 12%
Unknown 36 21%
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