Orangutan News: SOCP Training Orangutans In The Wild
A trainer helps an orangutan adapt to its natural environment in Jantho in Aceh Besar. Two modified jeeps were passing a steep hillside in the pine forest of Jantho, Aceh Besar, with roaring engines...
View ArticleOrangutan Report: Orangutans Have a Big Idea
by Rebecca Widiss for Science AAAS Even when they are very young, orangutans may start to form ideas about their world—specifically, how and when to use certain tools. That’s the conclusion of a...
View ArticleOrangutan News: Only a Change in Strategy Will Save the Sumatran Orangutan
by Julie Capuano for Science Recorder Anthropologists at the University of Zurich believe that deforestation isn’t the only reason that Sumatran orangutans face extinction, according to a university...
View ArticleOrangutan News: Islands of Sanctuary for Endangered Orangutans
By Ollie Milman for theage.com.au An ambitious project, led by a Melbourne zookeeper, to create a series of man-made islands for sick and injured orangutans in Indonesia, is a step closer after an...
View ArticleConservation News: Forest Destruction Ban Announced
Indonesia’s province of East Kalimantan announced the imposition of a one-year ban on forest destruction last week. The need to curb mining and palm oil expansion in particular mentioned by a governor...
View ArticleConservation News: Paper Giant APP Promises No Deforestation in Indonesia
from the Jakarta Globe The world’s third-largest paper producer Asia Pulp and Paper said on Tuesday it had stopped using logs from Indonesia’s natural forests, after fierce campaigning by green groups...
View ArticleOrangutan News: Homeless Orangutan Rescued by Students
Seventy percent of wild orangutans currently live outside protected areas. (JG Photo/Safir Makki) Tunggadewa Mattangkilang | February 12, 2013 Students at Kutai Kartanegara University in East...
View ArticleConservation News: Indonesian Governor Proposes Opening Protected Areas To...
Aceh province, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Sumatran Forest and Google Earth. Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com The governor of Indonesia’s Aceh Province on the island of Sumatra has proposed opening up...
View ArticleSave the Orangutan Wristbands for Valentines Day and Every Day
What better day than today to show your love for the amazing orangutan. The Orangutan Conservancy is excited to offer you a way to help us continue our mission to protect orangutans and help to...
View ArticleSOCP Confiscates Illegal Pet Orangutan Captured On Palm Oil Estate
Gokong Puntung after rescue by SOCP Banda Aceh (20th February 2013) A team from the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP: comprising PanEco Foundation (Switzerland), Natural Resources...
View ArticlePolice Save Infant Orangutan in East Kalimantan
(JG Photo/Safir Makki) Tunggadewa Mattangkilang for the Jakarta Globe Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan. The Kutai Kartanegara district police in East Kalimantan have rescued a 1.5-year-old orangutan...
View ArticleMonopoly of the Male Orangutan: Comparative Field Observations
(Credit: © Lynda Dunkel, AIM Zurich) Mar. 5, 2013 — The sexual development, mating habits and social hierarchy of the orangutans are more heavily dependent on their environment than had previously been...
View ArticleOil or Orangutans: Can Consumers Choose?
by Liza Kappelle AAP for news.com.au The deaths of thousands of orangutans amid widespread environmental degradation have been laid at the door of the oil palm industry. It’s an emotive issue that’s...
View ArticleConservation News: Norway Drops Asian Palm Oil Firms in Show of Green...
A worker holds a handful of palm oil seeds (AFP Photo/Sutanta Aditya) Joachim Dagenborg & Alister Doyle for the Jakarta Globe Norway’s $710 billion sovereign wealth fund has pulled out of 23 Asian...
View ArticleConservation News: Story Says More Companies Looking to Go Green While...
Plantation and logging firms have been blamed for the destruction of forest like this peat swamp in Riau. (Bloomberg Photo/Dimas Ardian) By Tunggadewa Mattangkilang & Khara Kessek for the Jakarta...
View ArticleTwo Illegal Pet Orangutans Confiscated From Tripa Peat Swamp Forest Area
Upin, one of the two orangutans recently rescued by SOCP Aceh (28th March 2013) On Wednesday morning (March 27) another two young orangutans arrived at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme’s...
View ArticleThe Orangutan Conservancy Announces 2013 OC/OVAG Veterinary Workshop
By Tom Mills The Orangutan Conservancy is pleased to announce that this year’s annual OC/OVAG Veterinary Workshop will be held from June 24-28 in Bogor, Indonesia. The muti-day workshop will bring...
View ArticleOrangutan News: Hanging On For Dear Life – Orangutan Family Rescued as Borneo...
An adult orangutan looks down from its treetop home as the forest in Ketapang, Borneo, is bulldozed (Caters) Terrified primates were saved in Borneo last week as their homes were destroyed to make way...
View ArticleOrangutan News: Secret Population of Rare Orangutan Discovered in Borneo
A male orangutan hangs from a tree in Gunung Leuser National Park in Langkat district of the Indonesia’s North Sumatra Park. (Photo : Reuters) by Catherine Griffin for Science World Report A rare...
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