THE POLITICS OF EXTINCTION
Executive Summary   Introduction   A Future Without Forests?   Summary   Indonesia's Forest Cover   Real Value of the Forests   Indonesia's Biodiversity   Sumatran Rhinoceros   Sumatran Tiger   Clouded Leopard   Primates Proboscis Monkey   Sun Bear   Protected Forest Areas   Kutai National Park   The Orangutan Crisis   The Timber Barons   Palm Oil	A Future Without Forests? - Primates Indonesia is home to 29 species of primate of which 16 (19 if all the Sulawesi macaques are included) are island endemic. The threats to these primates have long been recognised. Over ten years ago, the IUCN reported that "all but nine of 29 species have lost half or more of their original habitat and four endemics have lost over 85% of their original habitat... For the Javan gibbon and Javan leaf monkey, species with very limited distributions in lowland rainforest, habitat loss is a drastic 96%".50 More recent research into the status of the 12 primate species in Kalimantan reiterates the concern that forest degradation is the main threat to the survival of these primates.51
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