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 […]
Women’s groups and representatives of other civil society organisations have appealed to the Indonesian president Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to spare the life of Filipina single mother Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, who is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Officials from Indonesia and Singapore say the main body of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been located in the Java Sea, and the information has been confirmed by AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes. Investigators […]
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 […]
Indonesian authorities say the cockpit voice recorder from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been retrieved from the bottom of the Java Sea. It was lifted onto an Indonesian navy ship and is now […]
Indonesian officials say the cockpit voice recorder from crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been located in the Java Sea, 20 metres from the flight data recorder that was retrieved earlier today. Divers […]
Indonesian officials say divers have recovered the data recorder of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which crashed when en route from Surabaya to Singapore just over two weeks ago. The head of Indonesia’s search […]
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 […]
Underwater image released in Indonesia today. On the 11th day of the search for victims and the wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501, the head of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency has […]
Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency has confirmed that another four bodies have been recovered from the sea in the search for victims and the wreckage of the AirAsia flight that crashed […]
AirAsia Indonesia has released a statement, confirming that the debris found today is from its missing flight QZ8501. Full statement on December 30, 2014, at 18:00 p.m. local time (GMT+7). SURABAYA, 30TH […]
Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency officials say search teams have found debris from the missing AirAsia plane, and at least one body. News agency reports stated that more than 40 bodies […]
Indonesia has suspended its search for the AirAsia flight that went missing this morning while en route from Indonesia to Singapore. As darkness fell, the authorities decided to call off their operations […]
Search and rescue operations are continuing after an AirAsia plane went missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore. There were two pilots, four flight attendants, and one engineer on board the airbus […]
An AirAsia plane en route from Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control. The flight had seven crew and 155 passengers on board. The passengers are reported to include […]
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