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Environment News tagged with orangutans

M'Sia Plans to Save Orang Utans
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, trees, replanting, Borneo, habitat, orangutans, forests, protection, nature )

Cher
- 28 days ago - straitstimes.com
MALAYSIAN authorities will replant trees in a forest ravaged by logging on Borneo island in the latest effort to restore the natural habitat of endangered orang utans, a global environmental group said on Wednesday
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Press Release: Asia Pulp & Paper Threatens the Habitat of Sumatran Orangutan
Environment  (tags: environment, paper, orangutans, habitat, protection, wildlife, destruction )

Cher
- 98 days ago - redapes.org
More than a hundred of Sumatran Orangutan in Bukit Tigapuluh area, in Tebo, Jambi province is in great danger. Paper company Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) suppliers -- which are also its subsidiaries - PT Wira Karya Sejati (PT WKS) and PT Rimba Hutan Mas
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Cadbury Caves - No More Palm Oil in Its Chocolate
Environment  (tags: cadbury, consrvation, pal, oil dropped, orangutans, home, environment, humans, destruction )

Simone
- 99 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
Cadbury is to get rid of palm oil from its chocolates after a public outcry. The firm started using the oil recently as part of a cost-cutting exercise which also saw the 150g and 250g bars shed about 20 per
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Stop Logging Indonesian Rainforest and Endangered Orangutan Habitat ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: animals, orangutans, AnimalWelfare, rainforest, Indonesia, habitat, destruction, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 154 days ago - globalwarming.change.org
A proposal for further forest clearing and destruction of over 33,600 ha of rainforest has recently been put forward by a joint venture company, Asia Pulp & Paper/Sinar Mas Group.
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Indonesian Orang-Utans and Tigers Threatened By New Logging Scheme
Environment  (tags: animals, orangutans, elephants, tigers, logging, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, destruction, nature, trees )

Cher
- 168 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Elephants, Sumatran tigers and some of Asia's rarest orang-utans will be plunged into a "dire and immediate" fight for their lives this summer as plans are finalised for a massive logging operation in Indonesia aimed at keeping the world supplied with
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Pulp Giant APP Set to Assault Sumatra Orangutan Sanctuary
Environment  (tags: environment, logging, tigers, elephants, orangutans, AnimalWelfare, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, habitat, destruction, nature )

Cher
- 190 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A massive logging operation planned by Asian Pulp and Paper and the Sinar Mas Group (APP/SMG) and associated companies is to include large portions of the only areas that Sumatran orangutans have ever successfully been re-introduced into the wild,
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Tell The Dirty 20 To Stop Rainforset Destruction
Environment  (tags: environment, forests, orangutans, protection, wildlife )

Panda Eat
- 390 days ago - ga3.org
From the Rainforest Action Network.Visit site to send a letter to the worst corporate despoilers and destroyers of the rainforests.These are companies,who use palm oil in everything from biscuits to soap.Such use may kill off orangatan polpulations.
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Indonesia: Orangutan Plan To Curb Carbon Emissions
Environment  (tags: orangutans, carbon emissions, global warming, climate change, wildlife )

Simone
- 708 days ago - scoop.co.nz
Indonesia's new 10 year action plan for conserving orangutans will have important benefits in mitigating climate change, according to WWF . These benefits were underlined by the launch of The Orangutan Conservation Strategy and Action Plan
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Money Really Does Grow on Trees
Environment  (tags: climate, environment, ClimateChange, carbonemissions, conservation, destruction, forests, habitatdestruction, animals, orangutans, wildlife, habitat, humans, documentary, Borneo, endangered, protection )

Cher
- 727 days ago - echonews.com
Cathy Henkel, is filming her new feature documentary, The Burning Season. And Entrepreneur Dorjee Sun has devised a carbon trading scheme that could save Indonesia's tropical rainforests and bring the orangutan back from the brink of extinction.
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98% of Orangutan Habitat Gone in Next 15 Years
Environment  (tags: habitatdestruction, environment, endangered, orangutans, rainforests )

Simone
- 896 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Indonesia is losing more than 2.1 million hectares (5.2 million acres) of forest a year to illegal loggers, states a new report from the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP). The report, which estimates the value of illicit timbering at $4 billion annually,
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Malaysia Plans Forest Recovery to Conserve Orangutan
Environment  (tags: forests, conservation, orangutans )

Bossy
- 932 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Malaysian authorities have proposed a multi-million dollar scheme to regenerate a heavily logged forest in a bid to save its orangutan population, a report said Sunday.
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