Orangutan

Female leopard on termite mound at sunrise in Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia© Marsel van OostenAn international conservation effort wants to do away with the traditional “big five” concept in wildlife – originally based on the animals on the African savanna that were the hardest to shoot and kill. Instead…

Michael Moore and Driessen agree! Wind, solar and biofuel energy are devastating Planet Earth Guest post by Paul Driessen Never in my wildest dreams did I envision a day when I’d agree with anything filmmaker Michael Moore said – much less that he would agree with me. But mirabile dictu,…

The tiny orangutan, no bigger than a house cat, was about 10 months old when he was rescued. Most of his nose had been sliced off, probably in the machete attack that killed his mother. He was taken to a rehabilitation centre near the city of Medan, on the Indonesian…

Some 70,000 animals across Indonesia are at risk of starvation as zoos struggle financially due to social distancing restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic.Key points:Dozens of zoos that rely on ticket sales for revenue are struggling to feed their animalsThe welfare of species endemic to Indonesia will be prioritised, zookeepers sayConservationists…

The COVID-19 pandemic has become the latest threat to the Tapanuli orangutan in Indonesia, the rarest great ape species of all and one already under severe pressure from a range of human threats. The critically endangered species, Pongo tapanuliensis, found in a single patch of rainforest in northern Sumatra, shares…

This article was originally published at Foreign Policy in Focus by Food First Fellow, Walden Bello. The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of course, is aware that hunger is closely tracking the virus as… Read More

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of course, is aware that hunger is closely tracking the virus as its wreaks havoc in both the global North and global South. Indeed, one can say that, unlike…

COVID-19 is so dangerous to food security because the global supply chain was insecure to begin with. Could we remake it? By Walden Bello | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of course,…

Orangutan parents look after their children for around nine years, longer than any other primate except humans. In this Sir David Attenborough-narrated clip from episode ten of the ten-part BBC series Life, a 42-year-old orangutan mother teaches her 6-year-old daughter how to forage high in the rainforest canopy of Sumatra…

The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of course, is aware that hunger is closely tracking the virus as its wreaks havoc in both the global North and global South. Indeed, one can say that, unlike in East Asia, Europe, and…