Palm oil suppliers to food giant Mondelez have destroyed 70,000 hectares of rainforest including 25,000 hectares of orangutan habitat in Indonesia in just two years, new mapping analysis by Greenpeace ...

as part of a scheme to protect the endangered apes. However in a key revision of an earlier plan in May, the orangutans will not be allowed to leave the country. Plantations and Commodities Minister ...

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Picture a rhinoceros in the rainforest. Add a herd of elephants, families of orangutans swinging through the treetops, and tigers prowling the understory, and there is only one place in the world you ...

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Carbon-rich peatlands continue to be cleared and drained in an Indonesian protected wildlife reserve known as the “orangutan capital of the world,” with 26 kilometers (16 miles) of new canals dug so ...

SANDAKAN, Malaysia (Reuters) - Companies that import palm oil from Malaysia will be able to adopt orangutans but they will not be able to leave the country, the commodities minister said on Sunday, in ...

China has “panda diplomacy,” Australia parades koalas at global summits and now Malaysia plans to join the Asia-Pacific trend for adorable ambassadors – by gifting orangutans to countries that buy its ...

Lack of screening for legality by palm oil mills and refineries drives deforestation. PEKANBARU – An Eyes on the Forest (EoF) report published today demonstrates how crude palm oil tainted by ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Forest fires and land clearing by palm oil firms could kill off within weeks about 200 orangutans in a forest in western Indonesia, an environmental group said on Wednesday. The ...

Badul, once kept in a zoo enclosure beside other animals, spent eight years relearning forest survival skills; Korwas was ...