#orangutan

Collection of orangutan news, found 132 news.

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 ...

Orangutan number declining in Sumatra island

The number of Orangutans living in the wild in Sumatra island has gone down from 1,000 in early 2000 to less than 200 ...

NGO save another orangutan in Ketapang

A non-governmental organization (NGO), West Kalimantan International Animal Rescue (IAR), has saved another orangutan ...

Orangutans Free At Last

In the Indonesian or Malay language, the word "orangutan" literally means "man of the forest", and this is not so ...

BOS Foundation to release 600 orangutans in C Kalimantan

Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation will release 600 orangutans into Central Kalimantan forest in 2012. ...

Minister releases four orangutans in Kalimantan`s forest

Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan released four orangutans into the Bukit Batikap protected forest area in Murung Jaya ...

BOS will release 600 orangutans in 2012

The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation will set free a total of 600 orangutans into the Central Kalimantan ...

Orangutan hunting still continuing in E Kalimantan

The Center for Orangutan Protection (COP) said orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus moria) continue to be targeted by hunters in ...

news focus: heart of Borneo designated as "world`s lungs"

Kalimantan Island or also known as Borneo is host to a vast area of the country`s remaining tropical rainforests ...

Police trying to identify orangutan slaughter`s mastermind

Although a number of people suspected of slaughtering orangutans in Kutai Timur district, East Kalimantan, have ...

Three men named suspects for slaughtering orangutans

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

Police name orangutan killers in Kutai Timur suspects

Two people have been named suspects for killing an orangutan in Jukaya village in the sub-district of Telen, Kutai ...

RI govt seriously protecting wild life

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

Emerging evidence sheds some light on orangutan killing case

At the beginning, some people considered a report on the slaughtering of Kalimantan (Borneo) orangutan (pongo ...

Police name two new suspects in orangutan killing case

The National Police on Thursday named two more suspects in the case of orangutan (pongo pygmaeus morio) killings at ...