Orangutan

Ulet Ifansasti/GettyA Sumatran orangutan inside a cage at Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme’s rehabilitation centre in late 2016 in Kuta Mbelin, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Orangutans are struggling as massive amounts of rainforest in Southeast Asia are burned off, or chopped down, to make way for palm oil. Along with habitat loss,…

SmartNews Keeping you current Alba, who was captured and caged in 2017, underwent nearly two years of rehabilitation (BOSF 2020/Indrayana) smithsonianmag.com March 5, 2020 Last month, conservationists released three rehabilitated orangutans into Indonesia’s Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park. While monitoring one of the primates, whose name is Unyu, the…

World's only ALBINO orangutan, Alba, is spotted alive and well in Borneo rainforest more than a year after she was released into the wildBlue-eyed Alba was rescued in 2017 after she was found starving in a cage while kept as a pet by villagersThe primate - named Alba, the Latin…

The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation says Alba was spotted in a Borneo rainforest as it monitored 3 other orangutans who were recently released Published 8:23 PM, March 04, 2020 Updated 8:23 PM, March 04, 2020 ALBA. This undated handout photo released by Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation on March 4, 2020…

Asia Alba, the world's only known albino orangutan, was released back into the wild in late 2018. (Photo: AFP/Handout) 04 Mar 2020 07:26PM(Updated: 04 Mar 2020 07:43PM) KATINGAN, Indonesia: The world's only known albino orangutan has been spotted alive and well in a Borneo rainforest, more than a year after she was…

KATINGAN, Indonesia (AFP): The world's only known albino orangutan has been spotted alive and well in a Borneo rainforest, more than a year after she was released into the wild, conservationists say. Alba, a blue-eyed primate covered in fuzzy white hair, was taken in 2017 from a cage where she…

By Euronews Living last updated: 02/03/2020 last updated: 02/03/2020 In anticipation of World Wildlife Day on 3 March, eco-conscious clothing brand Pangaia has unveiled a new range of t-shirts to raise awareness of mammals in trouble.Some 25% of all beings threatened by extinction today are mammals, while 25% of mammal…

Campaigners in one british city are trying to halt a government plan to allow palm oil to be burnt in power stations to generate electricity, saying it is environmentally unacceptable.February 29, 2020 by Climate News Network Leave a Comment — By Alex Kirby LONDON – A UK Government plan to…

An aerial view of the Lower Sesan II Dam in Cambodia under construction. Sion Ang/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Three decades of rampant development and urbanization in China has taken a heavy toll on the environment. The air quality became some of the worst in the world, much of the…

2020-02-21 -- At least two China-backed infrastructure projects in Indonesia have been disrupted because of travel bans and shipments suspended because of the coronavirus outbreak, project managers said, while employees at an industrial park have been cleared to work after being quarantined. Thousands of Chinese nationals are constructing a high-speed…