images/stories/breakingnews/Orangutan-Resuce-Image.jpg Tenggarong, East Kalimantan. Four men were sentenced to eight months in prison on Wednesday for slaughtering protected orangutans on an East Kalimantan palm oil plantation. The sentences are likely to anger environmental and animal rights groups, which had demanded that the defendants receive the maximum penalty...
images/stories/breakingnews/Orangutan-Resuce-Image.jpg Written by Orangutan Conservancy Today an orangutan rescue team from the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP), Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari (YEL) and BKSDA Aceh (the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry’s nature conservation agency in Aceh) successfully rescued a large adult male orangutan trapped in a small pocket of...
images/stories/breakingnews/sepilok23.jpg JAKARTA, Indonesia—Fires raging in an Indonesian swamp forest may have killed a third of the rare Sumatran orangutans living there and all of them may be lost this year, conservationists warned on Wednesday. The Tripa swamp forest in Aceh province is home to the world’s densest...