The global illegal wildlife trade is valued at more than $US20 billion per year and it is the world’s fourth most lucrative black market. Delegates at the 2023 Asia for Animals (AfA) conference […]
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 […]
Human rights in Malaysia: annual report pinpoints deaths in custody, and violations of indigenous rights
The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) released its 2016 annual report today (Tuesday) and pinpointed the continued violation of indigenous people’s human rights. It also called for an urgent review of […]
Rescue team in Sumatra confiscates another orangutan kept as a pet
After two months attempting to rescue a young male orangutan in the province of Aceh in Indonesia, a team from the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) – along with the wildlife trade monitoring […]
Rescue team frees orangutan kept in a cage for nearly two decades
A team from the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) in Medan, Indonesia, has conducted yet another dramatic rescue – in Kabanjahe, North Sumatra. The orangutan they have just saved is a 20-year-old male, […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership ‘full of empty promises’ for the environment
The United States Trade Representative has hailed the TPP as a ‘historic opportunity to advance conservation and environmental protection across the Asia-Pacific’, but it’s been described as a ‘ticking time-bomb’ for climate […]
Freedom beckons for Pongky the orangutan after more than a decade in captivity
A Sumatran orangutan who was kept for more than a decade in a tiny cage, then was rescued, only to end up back behind bars in a zoo, is now at a […]
Indonesian wildlife trafficker jailed for two years
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, […]
ASEAN groups plead for clemency for Filipina maid as executions loom in Indonesia
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 […]