#orangutan

Collection of orangutan news, found 142 news.

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 ...

Police grill 25 witnesses in orangutan killing case

The National Police have grilled 25 witnesses in the orangutan (pongo pygmaeus morio) and monkey killing case at Puan ...

RI govt urged to protect orangutans against palm oil plantation companies

The Center for Orangutan Protection (COP) has urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to instruct the Forestry ...

news focus: rainforest conservation, law enforcement crucial for orangutan`s survival

Indonesia is home to the world`s remaining population of critically endangered orangutans found on Sumatra and ...

Anti-oil palm industry campaigns must be countered

Industry Minister MS Hidayat said black campaigns against the oil palm industry must be countered because in reality ...

Kutai National Park hosts 958 species of flora

The landscape of Kutai National Park (KNT) is dominated by a Dipterocarpaceae lowland tropical rainforest and has ...