Orangutan

Iranian women who post photos of themselves online without their headscarves on could face up to 10 years in prison. They face the punishment for posting images or video online, and for sending them to Masih Alinejad, a US-based activist who founded the Whit…

A boy who celebrated his sixth birthday just last month was among three people shot dead by a gunman who opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California on Sunday, police said. Steven Romero was described as a loving boy who had attended the…

Authorities are looking for an Oregon toddler who remains missing after his parents died in what is believed to be a murder suicide.  The Medford Police Department and the FBI are searching for Aiden Salcido, aged two, whose parents Daniel Salcido and Hannah…

A British woman has been arrested on suspicion of filing a false complaint of gang rape in Cyprus. Police said a dozen Israeli teenagers had initially been detained as suspects on July 18, after the woman reported she had been assaulted in a hotel room in th…

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over palm oil plantations in East Kalimantan - the Indonesian part of the island Borneo. Palm oil is the most widely-produced tropical edible oil. It's used in a vast array of products - from ice cream and chocolate…

Spanish officials discovered what appeared to be a mummified fetus during a routine inspection of an airplane in Madrid. Officers with the Civil Guard found the fetus wrapped in a cloth, placed in a container and stashed in the towel cabinet of a bathroom. T…

DescriptionThe Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over palm oil plantations in East Kalimantan - the Indonesian part of the island Borneo. Palm oil is the most widely-produced tropical edible oil. Its used in a vast array of products from ice cream and c…

Orangutans are found in the rainforests of Borneo and on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. KUALA LUMPUR: Orangutan populations in forest patches found in oil palm estates in Sabah fell as much as 30% in 15 years, but the overall population of the species in …

The orangutan population in forest patches within Sabah's oil palm plantations have dwindled over the past 15 years, a survey by WWF-Malaysia has found. The survey showed that orangutan numbers in Kulamba and Tabin have dropped by 30 percent and 15 percent r…

Orangutans (Pongo) are shaggy-haired great apes native to Indonesia and Borneo. Considerably smaller than some of their ape cousinsranging in size from 100 to 220 pounds, as opposed to 400 pounds for fully-grown male gorillasthese primates are found in the tr…