Orangutan

Even though economic development was one the key agenda items at the 34th Asean Summit held in Bangkok last week, human rights protection in the context of business operations seemed to not get sufficient attention from Asean leaders. This is unfortunate, gi…

On a Sunday evening last month, Masood Akhter, a 45-year-old government worker, was out with his family in Wah, a garrison city on the Potohar Plateau in Pakistan's Punjab province northwest of the capital, Islamabad.  While walking through the city, he spot…

The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critically enda…

The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critically enda…

JAKARTA: The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critic…

The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critically enda…

JAKARTA: The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critic…

A four-and-half-year-old orangutan has today been released into the wild in Indonesia.  Rere was set free from a cage at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) Reintroduction and Quarantine Station in Jantho, Aceh Besar. Together with Aceh Natur…

KUALA LUMPUR: The giant panda enclosure at Kuala Lumpurs Zoo Negara provided visitors a cooling respite from the hot and humid weather. On Tuesday morning (Jun 11), the zoos biggest attraction, a one-year-old giant panda cub, was enjoying the air-conditioned…

"I spend a great deal of my time in the jungle, surveying the heartbreaking damage caused by rampant deforestation of the orangutans' home, usually to make way for palm oil and other agricultural plantations," Cocks said. "Our focus and the majority of my tim…