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? - Proboscis Monkey (Nasalis larvatus) Endemic to the island of Borneo, the proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) is estimated at fewer than 5000 individuals52 and according to experts continues to be regularly hunted for food.53 The largest protected population is found in Tanjung Puting National Park in Kalimantan. The Park has been severely degraded by fire, logging and illegal gold mining over a period marked also by changes in the primates' group stability, size and composition. It is feared that a continuation in these trends will result in the local extinction of this population.54 Elsewhere the species is thought to be declining rapidly and will become restricted to small totally isolated populations.55
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