#natural conservation

Collection of natural conservation news, found 52 news.

Indonesian Navy thwarts attempt to smuggle protected animals

The Indonesian Navy has thwarted the attempt to smuggle dozens of protected animals to Malaysia aboard a boat and ...

SBI team rescues endangered male proboscis monkey in South Kalimantan

A rescue team of Indonesia's Friends of Bekantan (SBI) rescued a male proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) under ...

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Saving Julia and Cykita

Three years ago, Julia had just given birth to her baby Cykita, when a team of conservationists in South Kalimantan ...

Balai Raja conservation area's Sumatran elephant population dwindles

The population of Sumatran elephants at the Balai Raja Wildlife Conservation area dropped further to only seven after a ...

Forest fire allegedly drives tiger into Chevron facility

A wild Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) was captured on camera roaming around the facility of oil firm PT ...

11 wild elephants roam around villages in Riau

Eleven Sumatran elephants (elephas maximus sumatranus) have roamed around the land of farmers and houses in Karya Indah ...

Trained elephants ill after 10 days of expelling wild elephants

Two trained elephants fell ill from fatigue after a 10-day operation to drive out wild elephants in Riau Province and ...

Raja Ampat organizes training for dive guides

The Raja Ampat District authorities organized a training for dive guides as part of efforts to improve services ...

West Papua receives award from Conservation International

West Papua Province received the Global Conservation Hero Award from the Conservation International (CI) at the ...

Six crossing paths for elephants built along Pekanbaru-Dumai toll road

Six special crossing paths for elephants are to be built along the Pekanbaru-Dumai toll road project, in a bid to ...

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Protecting Orangutans in natural habitat deemed crucial

- as well as three females -- Borneos mother Buntok (12), Paijah (15), and Danida (13). All six of the orangutan ...

Six orangutans released back into wild

Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation in cooperation with Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation ...

News Focus - efforts underway to save sumatran tigers from extinction by Otniel Tamindael

The Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) of Riau Province on Sumatra Island continues to make every effort to ...

IMF-WB - Indonesia to use OECD recommendations to set up policies

Indonesia will use a recommendation on tourism development from the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation ...

Nomadic tourism suitable for Garut, W. Java

Jakarta (ANTARA News)m- Tourism Minister Arief Yahya stated that the concept of nomadic tourism could be developed in ...