Not by science alone: why orangutan conservationists must think outside the box

A Modest Proposal for Wealthy Countries to Reforest Their Land for the Common Good

(2011) Erik Meijaard et al.   BIOTROPICA

Incomplete lineage sorting patterns among human, chimpanzee, and orangutan suggest recent orangutan speciation and widespread selection

(2011) A. Hobolth et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Deforestation rates in insular Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2010

(2011) JUKKA MIETTINEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The evolutionary context of the first hominins

(2011) Bernard Wood et al.   NATURE

Why Don't We Ask? A Complementary Method for Assessing the Status of Great Apes

(2011) Erik Meijaard et al.   PLoS One

Apes in Space: Saving an Imperilled Orangutan Population in Sumatra

(2011) Gail Campbell-Smith et al.   PLoS One

Remotely sensed evidence of tropical peatland conversion to oil palm

(2011) L. P. Koh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Endangered species and a threatened discipline: behavioural ecology

(2011) Tim Caro et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Local attitudes and perceptions toward crop-raiding by orangutans (Pongo abelii) and other nonhuman primates in northern Sumatra, Indonesia

(2010) Gail Campbell-Smith et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Out of Africa: new hypotheses and evidence for the dispersal ofHomo sapiensalong the Indian Ocean rim

(2010) Michael D. Petraglia et al.   ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Estimating Orangutan Densities Using the Standing Crop and Marked Nest Count Methods: Lessons Learned for Conservation

(2010) Stephanie N. Spehar et al.   BIOTROPICA

Purity and Prejudice: Deluding Ourselves About Biodiversity Conservation

(2010) Douglas Sheil et al.   BIOTROPICA

What Every Conservation Biologist Should Know about Economic Theory

(2010) JOHN GOWDY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Can ecosystem services lead ecology on a transdisciplinary pathway?

(2010) BELINDA REYERS et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Moving beyond panaceas: a multi-tiered diagnostic approach for social-ecological analysis

(2010) ELINOR OSTROM et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Using Simulation Models to Evaluate Ape Nest Survey Techniques

(2010) Ryan H. Boyko et al.   PLoS One

Recent Surveys in the Forests of Ulu Segama Malua, Sabah, Malaysia, Show That Orang-utans (P. p. morio) Can Be Maintained in Slightly Logged Forests

(2010) Marc Ancrenaz et al.   PLoS One

Unexpected Ecological Resilience in Bornean Orangutans and Implications for Pulp and Paper Plantation Management

(2010) Erik Meijaard et al.   PLoS One

Declining Orangutan Encounter Rates from Wallace to the Present Suggest the Species Was Once More Abundant

(2010) Erik Meijaard et al.   PLoS One

Apes Among the Tangled Branches of Human Origins

(2010) T. Harrison   SCIENCE

Three decades of deforestation in southwest Sumatra: Effects of coffee prices, law enforcement and rural poverty

(2009) David L.A. Gaveau et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The future of forests and orangutans (Pongo abelii) in Sumatra: predicting impacts of oil palm plantations, road construction, and mechanisms for reducing carbon emissions from deforestation

(2009) David L A Gaveau et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Evaluating whether protected areas reduce tropical deforestation in Sumatra

(2009) David L. A. Gaveau et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evolution of the second orangutan: phylogeny and biogeography of hominid origins

(2009) John R. Grehan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

India at the cross-roads of human evolution

(2009) R. Patnaik et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Orang-utan nest surveys: the devil is in the details

(2009) Andrew J. Marshall et al.   ORYX

Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals

(2009) Oscar Venter et al.   Conservation Letters

The orangutan–oil palm conflict: economic constraints and opportunities for conservation

(2008) Hemanath Swarna Nantha et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

EVALUATING ORANGUTAN CENSUS TECHNIQUES USING NEST DECAY RATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR POPULATION ESTIMATES

(2008) P. D. Mathewson et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Cuddly animals don't persuade poor people to back conservation

(2008) Erik Meijaard et al.   NATURE

Distribution and conservation status of the orang-utan ( Pongo spp.) on Borneo and Sumatra: how many remain?

(2008) Serge A. Wich et al.   ORYX