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 Animals  Jacquelin - 2 days ago - abendzeitung.de On 14 July-born "Isalie" is together with her mother "Siti" but not just an attraction for children. "The fascination of animal babies is, of course, that is, inter alia, the child's responsibility scheme: large, round head and round eyes ...", so Wiesner
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 Animals Jacquelin - 4 days ago - dailymail.co.uk The mode of transport could best be described as basic.
But these eight young orangutans can hardly complain - as the purpose of their trip is to secure their survival.
Orphaned by Man's folly, they are unable to rely on their parents to teach them the
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 Animals Jacquelin - 10 days ago - news.com.au ZOOS must help conserve environments and species if they are going to continue to exist, renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall said today.
The 74-year-old - who has been part of the longest unbroken primate study in the world with the
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 Animals  Cher - 91 days ago - telegraph.co.uk The Sumatran orang-utan is now in such serious decline that it will take extraordinary efforts to prevent it becoming the first great ape species to become extinct.
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 Animals  Maldoror - 95 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com A new study says that orangutans are on the road to being the first of the Great Apes to face extinction, as their populations continue to slowly decline despite conservation efforts.
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 Animals  Cristina - 112 days ago - savetheorangutan.co.uk Borneo Orangutan Survival's rescue and rehabilitation centre in Indonesian Borneo - has recently welcomed the arrival of three young orangutans from West Kalimantan. All three (aged between 2 - 3 years) were confiscated from private households - victims
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 Animals Cher - 128 days ago - savetheorangutan.org.uk Lone Dröscher-Nielsen gave up her career with Scandinavian Airlines and set up the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation in 1999 when she became aware of how serious a threat the great apes were facing. Since then it has become the largest primate rescue
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 Animals Cher - 143 days ago - earthtimes.org Two orangutans have tried to escape from zoos in California and Florida but were both recaptured without any harm to themselves or zoo patrons, according to reports Monday. The incidents at the Los Angeles zoo and at Busch Gardens in Tampa Florida were
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 Animals  Simone - 154 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk Conservationists are worried that the world's largest population of wild orangutans in Borneo in south-east Asia will die out within three years.
That's because the trees that they live in are being cut down in order to grow palm oil, used for soaps
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 Animals Cher - 154 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com The world's largest group of orangutans in Indonesia may face extinction by 2011 because of palm oil plantation expansion, which is destroying habitat, experts say.
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 Animals Cher - 156 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com One of the biggest populations of wild orangutans on Borneo will be extinct in three years without drastic measures to stop the expansion of palm oil plantations, conservationists said on Wednesday.
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 Animals Simone - 161 days ago - thepetitionsite.com Since 1980 over 80% of Orangutans have been wiped out all because of western civilisations increasing demand for palm oil. Orangutans used to live all across east Asia, but now have been restricted to just the small Islands of Borneo and Sumatra in South
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 Animals Cher - 162 days ago - wcs.org The orangutan - the only great ape found in Asia - may vanish from the wild within a decade, unless illegal logging of its habitat and poaching can be greatly reduced, according to research funded by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society.
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 Animals Simone - 163 days ago - defenders.org In the Indonesian and Malaysian languages orang means "person" and hutan means "forest." Combined it's a suitable name for this "person of the forest," which spends its life high in the tropical treetops but is also one of our closest cousins: Orangutans
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 Animals Cher - 163 days ago - csmonitor.com At any zoo, these surly apes would bomb the aw-isn't-he-cute exam, but here at the world's most successful school for rescued orangutans, they're taught to get back in touch with their wild side. Even playtime is serious business.
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