http://www.tarsier.org/tarsier.org/Hot_News_Blog/Hot_News_Blog.html hot news!<br/><br/>the latest tarsier news . . . iWeb 3.0 http://www.tarsier.org/tarsier.org/Hot_News_Blog/Entries/2009/1/16_Young_Indonesian_comments_on_hope_and_futility_in_Jakarta.html 25e8c603-1933-4990-bafa-226304772ec2 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:13:17 -0800 <a href="http://www.tarsier.org/tarsier.org/Hot_News_Blog/Entries/2009/1/16_Young_Indonesian_comments_on_hope_and_futility_in_Jakarta_files/AA043081_3x4a-1.jpg"><img src="http://www.tarsier.org/tarsier.org/Hot_News_Blog/Media/object007_1.jpg" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:176px; height:132px;"/></a>Read a letter to the Jakarta Post from a young Indonesian who suffers culture shock on return to her home. In my experience, many Indonesians feel like this, and it is always a challenge to conduct my work in a way that aids them in their aspirations for a better Indonesia. This is made ever more difficult because, not being Indonesian, my viewpoint and even my whole being, can be so easily sidetracked with the standard comeback, “If you don’t like it, go home!”. http://www.tarsier.org/tarsier.org/Hot_News_Blog/Entries/2008/12/7_New_species%21_2.html 301c79cc-0ade-44e9-9f36-7395aafbc86f Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:00:15 -0800 A new, critically endangered, tarsier species, Tarsius tumpara, is described by Myron Shekelle, Colin Groves, Stefan Merker, and Jatna Supriatna. It’s range is restricted to the tiny, highly volcanic island of Siau, where human inhabitants eat tarsiers as a snack food they call, tola-tola. This tarsier is listed as one of the world’s Top 25 Most Endangered Primates.<br/><br/><a href="../media_pdf.html">-read the description of Tarsius tumpara.</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.primate-sg.org/siau07.htm">-read about why it is one of the world’s Top 25 Most Endangered Primates.</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0607-02=">-read more about the volcano on Siau Island.</a><br/><br/> http://www.tarsier.org/tarsier.org/Hot_News_Blog/Entries/2008/11/28_New_species%21.html 19e0c594-9ac1-4b7e-9678-e6c79b21752d Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:43:03 -0800 <a href="http://www.tarsier.org/tarsier.org/Hot_News_Blog/Entries/2008/11/28_New_species%21_files/Tarsius20tumpara.jpg"><img src="http://www.tarsier.org/tarsier.org/Hot_News_Blog/Media/object009.jpg" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:113px; height:122px;"/></a>A new, critically endangered, tarsier species, Tarsius tumpara, is described by Myron Shekelle, Colin Groves, Stefan Merker, and Jatna Supriatna. It’s range is restricted to the tiny, highly volcanic island of Siau, where human inhabitants eat tarsiers as a snack food they call, tola-tola. This tarsier is listed as one of the world’s Top 25 Most Endangered Primates.<br/><br/><a href="../media_pdf.html">-read the description of Tarsius tumpara.</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.primate-sg.org/siau07.htm">-read about why it is one of the world’s Top 25 Most Endangered Primates.</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0607-02=">-read more about the volcano on Siau Island.</a><br/><br/>