Orangutan

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…

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Orangutan populations in forest patches found in oil palm estates in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah fell as much as 30% in 15 years, but the overall population of the species in the area is stable, World Wide Fund for Nature (WW…