Commentary: Malaysia’s 'orangutan diplomacy' plan is attracting criticism before it starts

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Without adopting a comprehensive conservation plan for the animals, Malaysia risks international condemnation that it is gifting orangutans as a reward to major palm oil importers, says this foreign policy expert from University of Nottingham Malaysia.

A Sumatran orangutan eats vegetables at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur on May 25, 2022. Following in the footsteps of China's "panda diplomacy", Malaysia has made the controversial decision to send orangutans to major economic partners. plan was confirmed by the nation’s plantation and commodities minister, Johari Abdul Ghani, at a biodiversity conference in early May.agricultural imports that cultivate crops on lands that were deforested after 2020.

File photo. A worker sorts out oil palm bunches before processing them at a factory in Dengkil, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.

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