Malaysia eyes ‘orangutan diplomacy’ with nations that import palm oil

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia intends to gift orangutans to palm oil-buying countries as allotment of an initiative a lot like China’s panda diplomacy, the commodities minister acknowledged on Tuesday (Could perchance fair 7).

Johari Abdul Ghani acknowledged the “orangutan diplomacy” strategy would gift the endangered mountainous apes to palm oil buying and selling countries, especially major importing territories like the European Union and India.

Orangutans are critically endangered, in accordance with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), with habitat loss “resulting from logging, agricultural growth, critically palm oil plantations, and infrastructure style” posing the ultimate threat.

There are fewer than 105,000 of them left on the island of Borneo. The species is mighty by its purple fur and gets its title from the Malay phrase “man of the forest”.

“By introducing ‘orangutan diplomacy’, this can indicate to the world, that Malaysia is continuously committed to biodiversity conservation,” he acknowledged in a put up on social media platform X.

He urged palm oil firms to collaborate with non-governmental organisations to help have and present technical abilities on natural world in Malaysia.

Beijing has prolonged frail panda diplomacy as a murder of aloof vitality.

It handiest loans pandas to foreign places zoos, which must basically return any offspring within a couple of years of their delivery to affix the nation’s breeding programme.