Orangutan

Tens of thousands of evacuees remain crowded into emergency shelters, waiting for the floodwaters to recede in and around Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, as the death toll from massive New Year's flooding reached 47, officials said. Monsoon rains and rising ri…

Tens of thousands of evacuees remain crowded into emergency shelters, waiting for the floodwaters to recede in and around Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, as the death toll from massive New Year's flooding reached 47, officials said. Monsoon rains and rising ri…

A mother and her two daughters have handed themselves in to police investigating a fire that killed more than 30 animals at a zoo in Germany. The three women, aged between 30 and 60, are believed to have launched paper sky lanterns which ignited the blaze th…

Mongabay- IndiaJan 02, 2020 14:17:41 IST 2019 closed out a lost decade for the worlds tropical forests, with surging deforestation from Brazil to the Congo Basin, environmental policy roll-backs, assaults on environmental defenders, abandoned conservation co…

The devastating bushfires that are currently raging in Australia are a dramatic portent of the environmental disasters which we can expect in the next decade. Over the next ten years the frequency and scale of climate change related disasters is likely to dra…

Your New Year hangover has finally worn off. Armed with a clear head and the bright hope and enthusiasm of a child, you draw up a list of New Years resolutions which will be dominated by the wholesome trinity: exercise more, lose weight, drink less alcohol. …

Ever since I inherited this cracked crystal ball from my late colleague Alan Watkins, it has failed to function well. It was in fine working order when he used it to compile his end-of-year Almanack of predictions for the following year, but in recent years i…

The sweet moment a baby orangutan that had been separated from its mother gets rescued in a remote village was captured in several photos. The frightened baby ape, named "Aben" by his rescuers, can be seen holding on tightly to conservationists in photograph…

The destruction of the Bornean rainforests is having a devastating consequences on Orangutans. Their numbers are plummeting. Experts claim that the population fell by 148,000 in 16 years between 1999 and 2015. And to highlight their plight, working with In…

Cola, a 10-year-old female orangutan waiting in a cage to be sent back to Indonesia, at a Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday (Dec 20). Wildlife authorities in Thailand repatriated two orangutans, Cola and 7-year-old Giant, to their native hab…