Orangutan

There was a dead lizard in the mail. But that wasn’t the unusual part. Australia’s wildlife “coroner”, forensic veterinary pathologist Dr Lydia Tong, performs hundreds of autopsies on native and exotic animals each year, many of them from zoos; others, such as this shingleback lizard, the victim of a multibillion-dollar…

From a low-flying helicopter, conservationist Marc Ancrenaz peered down at the homogeneous rows of trees in a Borneo palm oil plantation and spotted something that made his heart sink: an orangutan nest. Until that moment 15 years ago, he had never seen one so out of place, away from its…

An orangutan found starving and with gunshot wounds after fire destroyed its home has been returned to the wild as experts warned Earths most biodiverse ecosystems are facing a crisis of destruction. Epen, as rescuers named the animal, was released with gun …

Overall Winner, Young Shepherd, Fada-Ngourma, Burkina Faso Photo: Katy Gomez Catalina, Spain - Travel Photographer of the Year TPOTY Jury duty must have posed considerable challenges for the members to choose the winning images capturing our glorious planet…

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The 2019 winners and finalists of the Travel Photographer of the Year Awards have been revealed. PBS recently gave viewers a look at MIT Museum's new The Polaroid Project instant photography exhibition. Researchers with IBM and MIT have published a new demo…

The amazing winning and shortlisted images from the 2019 Travel Photographer of the Year competition have been revealed - and they are guaranteed to enchant, fascinate, and prompt the jaw to generally drop.  Photographers from 144 countries submitted over 20…

The new capital city Nagara Rimba Nusa BPMI Jakarta, a city overly congested with 30 million people, including those in the metropolitan zone, is prone to earthquakes and flooding and is rapidly sinking due to the uncontrolled extraction of groundwater. Mor…

This is the heartbreaking moment a tiny orangutan cries and clings to its mother after a fire ravaged their home in Borneo. Earlier this month International Animal Rescue (IAR) were alerted that the orangutans had been driven into residential gardens in Tanj…

Unfortunately, there has been an increasing number of wildfires in recent years. It can start to feel as if no place is safe. We wouldn’t be wrong in feeling this way as wildfires destroy our planet’s ecosystem which is, of course, detrimental to the planet. Source: Wikimedia Commons As humans…