Sciency Thoughts: Indonesian authorities uncover illegal bauxite mine in the buffer zone of Mount Palung National Park, West Kalimantan.

Monday, 27 August 2018

Indonesian authorities uncover illegal bauxite mine in the buffer zone of Mount Palung National Park, West Kalimantan.

Authorities in West Kalimantan raided an illegal bauxite (aluminium ore) mine in the buffer zone of the Mount Palung National Park, an important Orangutan habitat, in the Ketapang Regency on Monday 20 August 2018. The site was raided by investigators from the Environment and Forestry Ministry and West Kalimantan Police following a tip-off from local residents. The site was allegedly being operated by mining company PT Laman Mining, which has been charged under the Prevention and Eradication of Forest Degradation Act of 2013.

An illegal bauxite mine in the buffer zone of the Mount Palung National Park, raided by Indonesian authorities on 20 August 2018. KLHK.

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Artikel ini telah tayang di Kompas.com dengan judul "Kementerian LHK Gerebek Penambangan Ilegal di Habitat Orangutan Sungai Tulak", https://regional.kompas.com/read/2018/08/26/12435461/kementerian-lhk-gerebek-penambangan-ilegal-di-habitat-orangutan-sungai-tulak.
Penulis : Kontributor Pontianak, Yohanes Kurnia Irawan
Editor : Kurnia Sari Aziza

The Mount Palung National Park is home to an estimated 2500 Borneo Orangutans, Pongo pygmaeus, a species classified as Endangered under the terms of the the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species, with a total population of about 54 500, and considered to be particularly at risk due to the rapid rate of deforestation in Indonesia.