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Ministry of Forestry sent letter to Aceh governor - May 2012

Posted 14 May 2012 in Orangutans in the News

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com- Indonesian Ministry of Forestry sent a letter to the Aceh Governor in order to have details on the ...

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Lack of Land Hinders Kalimantan Orangutan Release Plan - May 2012

Posted 03 May 2012 in Orangutans in the News

Balikpapan. Rehabilitation centers caring for more than 1,000 orangutans in Kalimantan are unable to comply with a presidential decree to ...

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A Grim Portrait of Palm Oil Emissions - May 2012

Posted 01 May 2012 in Orangutans in the News

Indonesia ranks right behind the United States and China in the lineup of the world’s top 10 greenhouse gas emitters.

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MRPS Adopts Orangutan Twins - Apr 2012

Posted 27 Apr 2012 in Orangutans in the News

Margaret River Primary School is among a select group of schools to win funding to promote Asian languages and culture ...

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Green groups may call for boycott of Indonesian palm oil over forest destruction in Sumatra - Apr 2012

Posted 11 Apr 2012 in Orangutans in the News

Environmental groups are escalating their battle over an area of peat forest in Tripa, Sumatra that has been granted for ...

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Are You Eating Dirty Oil? The Environmental Impacts of the Palm Oil Industry - Apr 2012

Posted 10 Apr 2012 in Orangutans in the News

Borneo is the third largest island in the world, and forty years ago it was covered with dense rainforest.

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Palm trees competing with orangutans for forests in Borneo - Apr 2012

Posted 08 Apr 2012 in Orangutans in the News

Here I am again with begging hands outstretched for help, but we need to make everyone aware of what’s happening ...

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Help Orangutans; make it a palm oil free easter - Apr 2012

Posted 04 Apr 2012 in Orangutans in the News

Auckland Zoo is urging New Zealanders to help orangutans and other Southeast Asian rainforest species this Easter by choosing chocolate ...

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Orangutan expert visits Atlanta to discuss conservation - Apr 2012

Posted 04 Apr 2012 in Orangutans in the News

In the past couple of months, Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has been to California, Canada, Lithuania, Singapore and Indonesia.

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SOCP: Orangutans gone by end of 2012 unless deforestation halted - Apr 2012

Posted 04 Apr 2012 in Orangutans in the News

After yesterday's decision by the Banda Aceh Administrative Court not to rule on a case brought by a coalition to ...

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