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Animals News tagged with orangutans

Baby Orangutans Orphaned and Abused in Borneo
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, orangutans, orphans, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 14 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The plight of a baby orangutan rescued from plantation workers in Borneo has exposed the high price these endangered primates are paying for the production of palm oil. The 2-3 year old female was found hogtied to a pole and had clearly been brutally
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ACTION ALERT: ORANGUTANS NEED YOUR HELP!!!
Animals  (tags: orangutans, homes destroyed, palm oil industry, endangered, extinction )

Simone
- 18 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Orangutans used to live all across east Asia, but now have been restricted to just the small Islands of Borneo and Sumatra in South East Asia. This is mainly due to logging in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra, which used to cover vitrually all of
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Orangutans Pay a High Price for Palm Oil in Indonesia
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, orangutans, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 21 days ago - iar.org.uk
The plight of a baby orangutan rescued from plantation workers in Borneo has exposed the high price these endangered primates are paying for the production of palm oil. The 2-3 year old female was found hogtied to a pole and had clearly been brutally
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Avoiding Palm Oil Is Good for Health and Good for Orangutans
Animals  (tags: palm oil, habitat destruction, orangutans, homes, endangered, threatened destroyed )

Simone
- 78 days ago - examiner.com
Wildlife that depends on the complex tropical ecosystem is damaged by loss of habitat. Natural habitat is diminishing for the orangutan. Malaysian tigers and elephants also suffer from decreased habitat. We all feel the effects of global warming that
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46 Orangutans Released Back To Wild
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, orangutans, released back into wild, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 79 days ago - redapes.org
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) has successfully released 46 orangutans back into the wild. These orangutans had been rescued from starvation, injury, illness or captivity by BOSF's Nyaru Menteng Rescue and Introduction Project, and have now
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Emergency Appeal: Borneo Is Burning
Animals  (tags: environment, animals, orangutans, Borneo, fires, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 87 days ago - redapes.org
Forest fires are breaking out in the Sabangau forests in Central Kalimantan- jeopardizing the lives of the estimated 8,000 wild orangutans living there.
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Our Team in Indonesia Helps Orangutans in Crisis
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, orangutans, IAR, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 88 days ago - iar.org.uk
International Animal Rescue's team in Indonesia is embarking on a new project to help captive orangutans in West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo.) They have just signed an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the Forestry Department to agree plans for
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Uk: If We Don't Help the Orangutans in West Kalimantan, No One Will...
Animals  (tags: orangutans, abused, chained, animal rescue, international rescuers, wild animals )

Simone
- 88 days ago - serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com
Our team in Indonesia is making real progress rescuing primates from the pet markets. Now they have uncovered another shocking situation which they cannot ignore - in West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) a number of orangutans are being kept in terrible
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ACTION ALERT: Remove Palm Oil From Kraft's Biscuits!!
Animals  (tags: kraf food, palm oil, habitat destruction, orangutans, survival, homes, conservation )

Simone
- 96 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Kraft say that they're committed to reducing the environmental impact of their activities, preventing pollution and promoting the sustainability of the natural resources upon which they depend. Surely, if they realized how destructive Palm Oil is, they
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Victory!!! Faced With Consumer Backlash, Cadbury NZ Stops Using Palm Oil in Chocolate
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, orangutans, palm oil, Cadbury )

Cher
- 99 days ago - redapes.org
Cadbury New Zealand today announced it is responding to consumers by returning Cadbury Dairy Milk to a recipe containing only cocoa butter.
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ACTION ALERT: Don't Palm Us Off!!!
Animals  (tags: orangutans, wildlife, protection, extinction, food, labelling, environment )

Simone
- 99 days ago - zoo.org.au
Let FSANZ know you have the right to choose whether your food purchases push Orangutans towards extinction. Tell FSANZ Don't Palm us Off! The food you are buying is pushing Orangutans to extinction. Palm oil is found in most food products and
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ACTION ALERT: Save the Orangutans - Demand Government Law Change on the Labelling of 'Palm Oil' in Our Products!
Animals  (tags: supermarkets, labelling, orangutans, habitat, environment, threatened )

Simone
- 99 days ago - gopetition.com
We need to ask the Government to put forward new legislation on the labelling of our products containing palm oil so that Manufacturers cannot label our products with the generic term 'Vegetable oil' when it contains destructive palm oil. Label palm oil!
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Orangutan Ruse Misleads Predators
Animals  (tags: animals, orangutans, deeper voices, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 109 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Wild orangutans in Borneo hold leaves to their mouths to make their voices sound deeper than they actually are, a new study shows.
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Twin Orangutans Get New Habitat at Jungle Island
Animals  (tags: wildanimals, wildlife, orangutans, Miami, Jungle Island )

Raffi
- 109 days ago - miamiherald.com
Linda Jacobs and Jenny Snyder watched as their children played on the monkey bars for the first time. Their 90-pound twins ignored the playthings, however, and immediately began eating fruit out of construction hats. The mothers watched
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Orangutans Only Musicians in the Animal World
Animals  (tags: orangutans, communication, predators. kiss squeak, survival, musicans )

Simone
- 110 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Wild orangutans in Borneo hold leaves to their mouths to make their voices sound deeper than they actually are, a new study shows, making them the only animal apart from humans known to use tools to manipulate sound. The orangutan's music, if you
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