Delegates at the Asia for Animals conference in Kuching on Malaysian Borneo heard about the horrors of the dog meat trade, the decline in animal populations, and the devastation being caused by […]
In a call to action at the 2015 Asia for Animals conference, the CEO of International Animal Rescue, Alan Knight, urged delegates to call on YouTube and Google to adopt an animal […]
A new alliance has been launched to protect the koala. The National Koala Alliance (NKA) – which is a non-profit network of wildlife carers, rescuers, advocates, conservationists, and researchers – chose World […]
More than eighty percent of the remaining orangutan habitat in Borneo could be lost by the year 2080 if the island’s current land-use policies remain intact, according to a new United Nations […]
An Indonesian wildlife trader, who was caught trying to sell an infant orangutan, has been sentenced to two years in prison and fined ten million Indonesian rupiah (about 750 US$) in Medan, […]
Profile of Panut Hadisiswoyo, who has just won the 2015 Whitley Award for Conservation in Ape Habitats, and the Orangutan Information Centre in Medan, Sumatra. “By saving orangutans, we are saving the […]
The director of the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) in Sumatra, Panut Hadisiswoyo, has won a prestigious Whitley Fund for Nature award. The Princess Royal presented Hadisiswoyo with the 2015 Whitley Award for […]
A Sumatran elephant has been found dead and mutilated in Indonesia’s Aceh province. The animal had its tusks removed and appeared to have gunshot wounds. The chief of the Aceh Natural Resources […]
A team from the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) in Medan, Sumatra, has rescued yet another orangutan marooned in a tiny patch of forest surrounded by oil palms. The rescue was carried out […]
Packaged food manufacturers and some companies producing personal care products are progressing in their efforts to source deforestation-free palm oil, but there are many laggards in other sectors, according to a new […]
The Australian not-for-profit organisation Palm Oil Investigations (POI) has launched a new mobile phone app that shows consumers whether products contain palm oil and, if they do, the scan reveals the oil’s […]
Data analysis by an orangutan conservation charity shows a dramatic loss of forest cover in the environmentally precious Leuser Ecosystem on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The Leuser Ecosystem is the only […]
In the past week, the Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit (HOCRU) from Medan, Sumatra, has rescued three orangutans: a male from inside an oil palm plantation and a mother and baby from […]
Jane Goodall walks the talk. The world-renowned primatologist, conservationist, anthropologist, and United Nations Messenger of Peace saves half packets of sugar in cafés to use later, puts a do-not-disturb sign on her […]
An orangutan and her baby have been rescued from a patch of forest that is surrounded by oil palm plantations in South Aceh, Indonesia. They were released into the Gunung Leuser National […]
Gober: the full story Gober’s much-anticipated release worked well for her and one of her twins, but one of the infants had to be shepherded back to the nearby cage complex after […]
A formerly blind orangutan, who is the mother of twins born in captivity, was returned to the wild in Sumatra, Indonesia, this week. The much-anticipated release worked well for the mother and […]
French sculptor Paulo Grangeon has brought his “1,600 pandas” exhibition to Malaysia to raise awareness about the number of the animals now left in the wild. Grangeon braved the heat and jetlag […]
Activists have launched a petition calling for a government investigation into the killing of an orangutan on an oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, earlier this month. The adult female orangutan […]
The Rainforest Action Network and Orangutan Outreach have joined forces to organise a Global Call-In Day tomorrow (December 9) to put pressure on the multinational PepsiCo to cut Conflict Palm Oil from […]
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