The world’s rarest and most threatened great ape species, the Tapanuli orangutan, is in greater danger of becoming extinct than conservationists feared, a group of researchers warn in a new report. The […]
Habitat loss and hunting have eliminated more than 100,000 Bornean orangutans, report states
The number of orangutans on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo plummeted between 1999 and 2015, according to a new report. The population decreased by more than 140,000 over the period, scientists […]
New TRAFFIC report says there is an ‘industrial-scale’ trade in pangolins in Indonesia
A new report by the monitoring network TRAFFIC documents the “industrial-scale” trade in pangolins in Indonesia and states that up to 10,000 of the trafficked animals are being seized by the Indonesian […]
International Gibbon Day: smaller apes are ‘endangered, yet overlooked’
Today (Tuesday) is International Gibbon Day and events are being organised around the world to foster awareness about the endangered primates and raise money for gibbon conservation. Gibbons live in tropical and […]
Wildlife poacher arrested in Sumatra ‘was set to sell tiger carcass’
This article has been updated with details of conviction and sentencing. A wildlife poacher who was in possession of a tiger carcass has been arrested in North Sumatra in Indonesia. An anti-trafficking […]
World Orangutan Day: conservationists call for an end to habitat destruction
It’s International Orangutan Day today (Saturday) and events have been organised around the world to raise awareness about the plight of the now critically endangered primate, whose DNA is 97 percent the […]
NGOs urge UNESCO to intervene to save rainforest heritage site
A consortium of NGOs is calling on UNESCO to intervene urgently to protect the rainforest World Heritage Site in northern Sumatra in Indonesia. The Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (TRHS) site has […]