Despite the taboo and illegal nature of killing orangutans, researchers heard evidence of a direct killing from at least one person in 30 per cent of 79 villages surveyed in Indonesia’s Kalimantan region.
As wildfires from coast to coast scorch large swaths of forest, sometimes changing it irreversibly, experts have zeroed in on an often overlooked casualty of the blazes: wildlife.
Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is in the process of leaving, moving Indonesia’s capital to the island of Borneo.
If palm oil from the rainforest for cows in the Prairies is either efficient or economical, we have a broken system, writes Shane Moffatt, leader of Greenpeace Canada’s nature and food campaign.
A University of British Columbia researcher is sharing her experiences helping run a "jungle school" in Indonesia that rehabilitates orphaned orangutans back into the wild.