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The Minister of Forestry Inaugurated the First Asian Rhino Range States Meeting

- The Ministry of Forestry Zulkifli Hasan Inaugurated the First Asian Rhino Range States Meeting on October 2 at the ...

On World Rhino Day, efforts to boost rhino conservation intensify

World Rhino Day 2013 was celebrated on September 22 in many countries, including Indonesia, with demands made for ...

Indonesia needs to increase number of its forest rangers

Indonesia needs to increase the number of its forest rangers and forest technicians in the field to prevent rare ...

Indonesia releases more sea turtle hatchlings into sea

Several inhabitants of Sao Village, Mentawai Island, West Sumatra Province, must be overjoyed when they found a 75-kg ...

Forest conversion to mining decreases anoa population

The conversion of forest areas has threatened the population of anoa (Bubalus depressicornis) and other endangered ...

Orangutans living outside natural habitat need attention

Orangutans are usually cute, adorable and smart that some people want to keep them as pets. Besides, orangutans and ...

Pangolins remain to become victims of poaching, illegal trading in 2012

Pangolins, also known as scaly anteaters, are not cute animal that people would like to keep as pets, but they are in ...

Landscape Restoration Movement Approaches 50 Million Hectares With El Salvador and Costa Rica Commitments

-     The global movement to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2020 - ...

Orangutans continue to face extinction in the wild

Increasing deforestation or the conversion of forest land into plantations has taken its toll on the natural habitats ...

Population of Sumatra elephants in critical condition

The population of Sumatra elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus) living in Riau, Indonesia, is in critical condition ...

Sumatran rhino gives birth in Way Kambas

A Sumatran rhino has given birth to a male calf at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary (SRS) in the Way Kambas National Park ...

Rhino international year expected to boost global cooperation

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the leader of one of the world`s most diverse countries, is scheduled to attend ...

Three men named suspects for slaughtering orangutans

Three men had been named suspects for allegedly slaughtering Orangutans in Kutai Timur district, East Kalimantan, an ...

RI govt seriously protecting wild life

Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan said the government was seriously committed to protecting wild life species such as ...

Tiger population in Bengkulu now only 40

The Sumatran tiger population in Bengkulu Province is now estimated at only 40, a provincial nature conservation ...