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Orangutans Are Now One Step Closer To Extinction
2016-07-08 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Both species of orangutan are critically endangered. Conservationists have been warning of this moment for years. Orangutans ? one of the planet's most intelligent animals ? are officially headed for extinction. The Bornean orangutan is now critically endangered, according to a species assessment published this week by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The animal's Sumatran cousin, the other species of orangutan, was already listed as critically endangered ? meaning all orangutans...
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Orangutans return home after Indonesia forest fires
2016-07-01 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Three orangutans rescued from forest fires in Indonesia are returned to the wild by International Animal Rescue workers.
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Orangutans rescued from Indonesian forest fires released back into wild
2016-07-01 10:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three orangutans rescued when forest fires destroyed their Indonesian rainforest habitats were returned to the wild on Borneo island last week. Karmele Llano Sanche, International Animal Rescue program director in Indonesia, made a three-day journey by car, boat and through the forest to release the animals in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park. "You know, it's amazing to see a big orangutan like that moving across the forest, this is home, home, back home," Sanche said. Sabtu, 25, was...
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Orangutans Under Threat From Betty Crocker Supplier
2016-06-02 16:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Betty Crocker is a well-loved name across baking-mad Britain, but one of its suppliers has been linked to the destruction of the environment. The leading baking brand is sourcing palm oil from IOI, a company responsible for destroying orangutan habitat and rainforest in Indonesia. IOI have been accused of a number of environmental scandals and many companies have dissociated with them as a result. General Mills is one of the biggest food manufacturers in the world. It owns Häagen-Dazs, Old El...
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Orangutans Are More Like Us Than You Think
2016-04-21 20:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Walimah, an orangutan mother featured in the new Nat Geo WILD show, danglings from a tree with her newborn. Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangtuans of Indonesia's Gunung Palung National Park. Together with their children, they've made it a family affair to reveal new threats to the great apes in their rain forest homes. In the new Nat Geo WILD show, "Mission Critical: Orangutans on the Edge," Laman treks to remote locations...
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