{"id":69952,"date":"2015-06-21T06:29:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69952"},"modified":"2015-07-01T09:56:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T17:56:28","slug":"can-orangutans-exist-with-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69952","title":{"rendered":"Can Orangutans Exist With Humans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fair question is if various types of humans can live with each other in peace.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/science\/can-orangutans-coexist-with-humans\/\">Report<\/a>: The struggle between the various players is nuanced and complex, and, for outsiders, often difficult to understand. To local farmers and other people long residing in disputed lands, the enemy isn\u2019t actually a wild animal, nor is it an environmental policy meant to protect those animals \u2013 but rather the policy\u2019s impact on their livelihoods and lives. Biologists can count animals and estimate how much habitat they need to survive. International conservation organisations can press governments to set aside protected areas for wildlife. But with resources scarce and finite, the same wild animals so sacred to Western conservation can turn into targets for those forced to share less and less land, people in the far-flung corners of an empire who hold little of its money or decision-making power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fair question is if various types of humans can live with each other in peace. Report: The struggle between the various players is nuanced and complex, and, for outsiders, often difficult to understand. 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