Side Event

Report Launch: "The Future of the Bornean Orangutan: Impacts of a Changing Climate and Land Use"

Organizer
Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP)

Date and Time
13 October 2014 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

The Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) will launch its latest report, "The Future of the Bornean Orangutan: Impacts of a Changing Climate and Land Use," which models scenarios to project the losses of population and habitat faced by orangutans in Borneo. Produced in collaboration with Liverpool John Moores University, the report examines how current practices of agricultural expansion and deforestation will continue to damage the landscape and ecosystem health of Borneo if left unchanged. The report addresses a number of key CoP12 themes, including the need for sustainable development in order to protect biodiversity, the potential impacts of climate change, and the key role species may play in highlighting these issues. This report also reflects a number of Aichi Targets, including 4,5,7,11, 12, and perhaps most of all 15, given that the ecosystem resilience and biodiversity of carbon stocks are most at threat if current land-use practices continue.