Schmutzer Primate Center in Ragunan Zoo is where the preservation of primates in Ragunan Zoo Park. Although located in Ragunan Zoo Park, its management is not left to the Ragunan Zoo Park. But by a private foundation whose funds originated from the Gibbon Foundation. As well as the San Diego Zoo, primate life in Schmutzer is designed like the wild life animals (without cages), for example, gorillas and orang-utan. The Cage is called enclosure. Places for visitors are provided a minimum, such as walkways, playground and learn or enter the cave, and the animals sought shelter maximum (in area). Schmutzer Primate Center also has a museum, library and movie theater little about primates in Indonesia and the world. Since visitors are not allowed to bring food in, Schmutzer very clean environment. Examination of this strict, precise care belongings safe and tidy. Visitors are checked before entering, even candy would be confiscated in the nursery goods. Drinking water is provided free at the park with a fountain drink at any point a certain point in the zoo. In addition to untreated animals, all plants in Schmutzer given the board a name based on its Latin name for details of visitors. Primate Center is still under development and some sections still under development finished. Example : gorilla enclosure 2 for male gorilla without a partner. In 2006 the primate center has been left entirely in jakarta Ragunan zoo.

Mrs. Pauline Antoinette Schmutzer-Versteegh

           She is pioneering the construction of Schmutzer Primate Center. He is an animal lover, painter and philanthropist. She bequeath all his estate to The Gibbon Foundation, chaired by Willie Smits to make a new facility for primates in the Ragunan Zoo Park.

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Below are the conservation organizations that are engaged in the rescue of primates. Just click the pictures below and you will get more information!

Why they became endangered?  
Below are the causes that make them endangered : 

Tarsius-siau :

1. Tarsiers live in a colony, if separated from their colony, they will die
2. Tarsiers often stress
3. These animals also often roam at residents. When people find tarsiers, it will be captured to be maintained. Because it was not in the original habitat, they will die.
4. And the worst, is tarsiers often consumed by the people because their meat are delicious.

Javan Slow Loris :

1. Slow lorises often found in illegal markets for trade.
2. In addition, they frequently hunted. So, the population gradually became less

Pongo Abelii:

1. These animals often captured and maintained by people.
2. High death rate is not matched by the number of their birth.
3. Orangutans often die by various causes such as lost their habitat by illegal logging, but it was hard to bear due to orang-utans give birth only 2 children each year

Simias Concolor :

1. A result of hunting by local people as a source of protein for local communities 
2. According to the observations of experts, Simakobus always wanted to see the form of threats, so do not run away when they saw people, and the cause is easy once hunted animals
3. Generally, primates are often hunted will be more "alert" to see human beings, but it does not happen with Simakobu. Consequently, Simakobu population dropped dramatically. We easily find Simakobu skull on display in the huts of indigenous forest.

This is a Population area of Indonesia's Endangered Primates

Red : Javan Slow Loris

      The population can be known through a number of illegal trade in Javanicus market. In the year 2000-2006 there were 894 head of trading from previous 1000 larvae. So it can be concluded the number of Javanicus Nycticebus which is now diminishing. This is a serious concern for preservation in the wild, given the proliferation of Slow Loris enough that only can give birth to one offspring in a year and a half. So it can be concluded the number of Javanicus Nycticebus which is now diminishing.

Green : Tarsius Siau

      The population of endangered tarsier, the smallest primate in the world who live in the forests of Sulawesi, dropped dramatically in the last 10 years. It is estimated that the number of animals named Latin Tarsius tumpara, in a number of forest in North Sulawesi, now are about 1800. In fact, in 1998, the number of tarsiers is still around 3500 . Some circles worried about the decline of tarsiers. There is 9 species, 2 in Philippine and 7 in Indonesia.

Pink : Pongoabelii

     Two large islands in the Indonesian archipelago, Borneo and Sumatra, were still heavily covered with the forests. Since 1971 an estimated 80% of the orangutan's habitat has been cleared, both through commercial logging and agriculture. A 2004 population estimate of Sumatran orangutans was about 7,300. It estimated will be decrease in each year.

Blue : Pig Tailed Langur

     Simakobu known to be in all the islands in Mentawai islands, such as on the island of Siberut, Sipora island, North Pagai Island, South Pagai Island, and the small islands around it. Simalegu Island in the southern part of South Pagai in 1986 has 18 individu/km2 Simakobu density. In the village Sinakak adjacent to the island has a density of 20 individu/km2 Simalegu (Tenaza 1989). Fuentes calculate the density Simakobu in Betumongga Island North Pagai a 26 individu/km2 (Fuentes and Ray 1995).
         It is estimated Simakobu only live less than 10,000 tail (Whittaker 2006). Simakobu included in the criteria of the IUCN as Critically Endangered and included in the 25 most endangered primates in the world (Mittermier et al. 2007)

IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)

What is IUCN? 

IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges. It supports scientific research, manages field projects all over the world and brings governments, non-government organizations, United Nations agencies, companies and local communities together to develop and implement policy, laws and best practice.

IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network - a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries.

IUCN’s work is supported by more than 1,000 professional staff in 60 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. The Union’s headquarters are located in Gland, near Geneva, Switzerland.

IUCN at a glance

• Founded in 1948 as the world’s first global environmental organization
• Today the largest professional global conservation network
• A leading authority on the environment and sustainable development
• More than 1,000 member organizations in 140 countries including 200+ government and 800+ non-government organizations
• Almost 11,000 voluntary scientists and experts, grouped in six Commissions
• A neutral forum for governments, NGOs, scientists, business and local communities to find pragmatic solutions to conservation and development challenges
• Thousands of field projects and activities around the world
• Governance by a Council elected by member organizations every four years at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
• Funded by governments, bilateral and multilateral agencies, foundations, member organizations and corporations
• Official Observer Status at the United Nations General Assembly 

IUCN’s vision and mission

1. Our vision is a just world that values and conserves nature.
2. Our mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.

What does IUCN do?

1. Knowledge : IUCN develops and supports cutting-edge conservation science, particularly on biodiversity and ecosystems and how they link to human wellbeing.
2. Action : IUCN runs thousands of field projects around the world to better manage natural environments.
3. Influence : IUCN supports governments, NGOs, international conventions, UN organizations, companies and communities to develop laws, policy and best-practice.
4. Empowerment : IUCN helps implement laws, policy and best-practice by mobilizing organizations, providing resources and training, and monitoring results.

Why does the world need IUCN?

How do we balance the needs of people with the needs of the planet that supports us?

Nature, directly or indirectly, provides our clean air, food, water, shelter, energy, soil, medicines and protection from natural disasters, as well as recreation, inspiration, diversity and beauty.

But for social and economic development, we must continue to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives and this has a great bearing on nature.

For 60 years, IUCN has led the development of conservation science and knowledge, and brought together governments, NGOs, scientists, companies and community organizations to help the world make better conservation and development decisions.

IUCN was founded in October 1948 as the International Union for the Protection of Nature (or IUPN) following an international conference in Fontainebleau, France.

The organization changed its name to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in 1956 with the acronym IUCN (or UICN in French and Spanish). This remains our full legal name to this day.

Use of the name “World Conservation Union”, in conjunction with IUCN, began in 1990. From March 2008 this name is no longer commonly used.


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Friends, Our primates are in endangered now. So, We must protect them for the ecosystem balance. The number of  Tarsius, Simakobu, Orang Utan and Kukang Jawa are decreasing in lately years. So, what should we do to safe them stay alive:

1.     Keeping in our forest ecosystem.
2.     Making sure that we never find them in our environment illegally.
3.     Report to responsible organization if you find them in wrong hand.
4.     We have to be up to date on all the news about our environment.

There are four points that we can do to help them still alive. They need our hand to cure their strongness and breed a lot. We have to think about their life in the future on earth. We hope that our child could see them for many years later.

Pig-Tailed Langur 

(Simias Concolor)

Morfology :  

• Its fur is black-brown, and its hairless face is also black.
• the tail is only slightly furred and is only 15 cm long.
• The short nose is pointed upward.
• The Pig-tailed Langur reaches a full grown length of approximately 50 cm and a weight of 7 kg.
• Adults males are significantly larger bodied than females, and their cacanine teeth are twice as long as females’ canines.

Habitat :

• It lives in small groups (3 to 8 animals), which consist of a male, one or more females, and their offspring. 
• This primate lives only on the Mentawai Islands, where it is known as Simakobou in Siberut and Simasepsep on the southern islands of Sipura, North Pagai, and South Pagai. Two of these islands, North- and South-Pagai, are its main range. It is a diurnal and arboreal rain forest dweller, rarely coming to the ground. 

Classification : 

Regnum       :    Animalia

Phylum        :    Chordata

Cladus         :    Chordata Craniata

Subphylum   :    Vertebrata

Infraphylum  :    Gnathostomata

Superclassis :    Tetrapoda

Classis         :    Mammalia

Subclassis    :    Theria

Infraclassis   :    Placentalia

Ordo           :    Primates

Subordo      :    Haplorrhini

Infraordo     :    Simiiformes

Parvordo     :    Catarrhini

Superfamilia :    Cercopithecoidea

Familia         :    Cercopithecidae

Subfamilia    :    Colobinae

Genus          :    Simias

Species        :    Simias concolor

Behavior : 

• They spend half the day feeding and foraging, seemingly dividing a third of their time evenly between eating fruits, leaves, and seeds. They rest for just over a third of each day. 
• Males often respond to hunters by performing vocal distraction displays, whereas females flee silently, leaving other group members unwarned and vulnerable. 
• It is only Asiatic colobine in which females have sexual swellings, and the only colobine with sexual swellings that lives in one-male groups.
•  Simakobu male can shout and be heard up to 500 m. Shouts consists of several series in one breath pulled thing. Shouts could be a spontaneous shouts, screams from the other male simakobu or in response to another voice.  

Diet : 

     The pig-tailed snub-nosed monkey eats mostly leaves and some fruit and berries.