Orangutan

(Reuters) - An adult male orangutan has been released into an Indonesian national park by conservationists and the government after he was caught eating a villager's coconut plants on Borneo island. As the orangutan habitat diminishes due to land use, conflicts between communities and the great apes have increased. Indonesia…

JAKARTA, May 3, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - The Rimba Raya Floating Clinic was introduced into the project area as a means to improve community access to health services in and around the Rimba Raya working area which is located along the Seruyan River. In cooperation with the Seruyan District…

Kuala Pembuang, Indonesia, Mar 1, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - As 2021 starts, the media continues to carry horrific stories of ongoing environmental abuse. We can no longer deny that the climate crisis is real, but somehow we manage to do just that. 'Extinction: The Facts' is a BBC Earth…

An orangutan in a cage is delivered by helicopter in Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia Ten orangutans have been airlifted back to their natural habitat on Indonesia's Borneo island, in the first release of the apes into the wild for a year due to the dangers of coronavirus infection. The animals…

By AFP     1 hour ago in World Eating fruit and drinking from plastic bottles, two Sumatran orangutans stared from their cages at Bangkok airport on Thursday before flying home to Indonesia, years after being smuggled into Thailand.Poachers in Southeast Asia frequently capture the critically endangered orangutans to sell…

Two orangutans returned to Indonesia published : 17 Dec 2020 at 15:03 One the the two four-year-old female orangutans in her cage at Suvarnabhumi airport, ready to be sent back to Indonesia, on Thursday. The two long armed primates were seized as they were smuggled into Thailand via Songkhla in…

As little as two centuries ago, the northern edge of the island of Borneo, home to Malaysia’s Sarawak state, was covered in a verdant canopy that stretched, uninterrupted, from shore to shore. It was a forest that had persisted for more than 100 million years, sheltering a dizzying abundance of…

Losses last year were estimated at US$5.2 bil while choking haze from the fires spread through the region. (AFP pic)JAKARTA: Indonesia has scaled back protection for some of the world’s most important tropical forests ahead of the worst season for fires because of budget cuts due to the coronavirus, the…

Asia FILE PHOTO: File picture of firefighters trying to extinguish forest fires at Sebangau National Park area in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia, September 14, 2019. (REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan) 25 Jun 2020 06:45PM(Updated: 25 Jun 2020 06:50PM) JAKARTA: Indonesia has scaled back protection for some of the world's most important…

-7 Sumatran orangutan has difficulty finding food in native Indonesian habitat A Sumatran orangutan is seen in the forest area of Danau Lau Kawar in the Karo District of North Sumatra, Indonesia on June 24. According to local media, it's been almost a month since the orangutan was spotted on…