Orangutan

Leif Cocks awarded Medal of the Order of Australia for outstanding conservation efforts NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Leif Cocks, President and Founder of The Orangutan Project (TOP), recently received the Medal of the Order of Australia, one of the country's highest honors, for his heroic work protecting critically…

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I'm your mummy now! Proud 'foster mother' orangutan begins a new life in the wild with her adopted orphaned infant after they were freed from captivity in Indonesia and paired togetherMonti, 12, and Anggun, three, were released into jungle of Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park in West Borneo They were…

Hundreds of bird populations in India are collapsing, according to a major new report. Researchers using data collected by more than 15,000 birdwatchers examined trends over a 25-year period, and also over the last five years, and in both cases found numbers had declined overall. Over the last quarter of a…

-6 Rescued orangutans released into the Indonesian jungle after rehabilitation The Sumatra Orangutan Conservation Program released one two-year-old Orangutan individual to the Janto Forest Nature Reserve, Indonesia on February 14. The orangutan, named Cut Keke, was considered to be very healthy and wild, Cut Keke was confiscated from East Aceh…

Britain’s wild beaver populations are reducing the impacts of floods, cleaning river water, and boosting populations of fish, amphibians and water voles, a five-year study has concluded. More than 400 years after the animals were hunted to extinction in the UK, the report sets out a convincing case for the…

Lifestyle By Kim Davis Published February 15, 2020 at 12:10am A man on a safari witnessed a once-in-a-lifetime moment when an endangered orangutan extended a helping hand to a park ranger in snake-infested waters. Anil Prabhakar, an amateur photographer and geologist from Kerala in India, was on the island of…

Primates are extremely intelligent creatures, but humans can sometimes forget how similar we are. One of the most iconic photos ever taken of a primate shows an orangutan hunting for fish with a makeshift spear, using very similar techniques as a human would. The image was captured by Gerd Schuster,…

Estimates of how much Indonesian forest and peatland burned in 2019 are politically sensitive.PHOTO: ULET IFANSASTI/STRINGER/GETTY IMAGESAfter living and working in Indonesia for about 15 years, French landscape ecologist David Gaveau suddenly left the country on 28 January. Indonesian immigration authorities had ordered Gaveau, a research associate with the Center…

檢視相片一隻瀕臨絕種的紅毛猩猩向在水中的男子伸出援手。An endangered orangutan extends a helping hand to a man in the water（圖/翻攝自BoredPanda)檢視相片一隻瀕臨絕種的紅毛猩猩向在水中的男子伸出援手。An endangered orangutan extends a helping hand to a man in the water（圖/翻攝自BoredPanda)【看英文中國郵報學英文】一名來自印度喀拉拉邦的地質學家近日於婆羅洲旅行時，恰巧目睹了一隻瀕臨絕種的紅毛猩猩向在水中的男子伸出援手，捕捉的照片在社群網路上得到熱烈地回應。A geologist from India recently witnessed an orangutan extending a helping hand to a man in the water while on a trip in Borneo, Indonesia. The…