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• Through a glass

  
  The Book of Barely Imagined Beings — Authority: 426
  Perhaps it is objectively true that only poetry can talk of birth and origin. Because true poetry invokes the whole of language (it breathes with everything it has not said), just as the origin invokes the whole of life, the whole of Being.The mother orangutan has come back, this time with her baby. She is sitting ...
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• 40% of lowland forests in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo cleared in 15 years

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 442
  Source: Mongabay Forty percent of lowland forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) were cleared from 1990 to 2005, reports a high resolution assessment of land cover change in Indonesia. The research, conducted by Matthew Hansen of South Dakota State University, and colleagues, found that Indonesia ...
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• Is man on course to cause the sixth extinction?

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 442
  Forthcoming book examines the role of humans in the eradication of species, and its findings are not likely to be pleasant Robin McKie Source: The Observer At first sight it seems an unlikely topic for a landmark publishing deal: a fee of about half a million dollars for a book about dead animals – or, to be ...
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• Survey reveals where to buy sustainable palm oil

  
  Daisy Green — Authority: 138
  Orangutans are under threat because of unsustainable palm oil production A new WWF survey says a handful of companies are showing real progress in their commitments to buy and use sustainable palm oil. But sadly, the majority, contrary to their commitments, are failing to buy the product in spite of its ...
  2 days ago

• Orangutan Rescued From Oil Palm Plantation

  
  Orangutan Foundation — Authority: 413
  Last Sunday the Orangutan Foundation responded to reports of a young female orangutan isolated in a tree in an oil palm plantation.     The young  female orangutan climbed the Banyan tree when we arrived in the oil palm plantation area at Pandu senjaya village, Pangkalan Lada.      Uduk ...
  2 days ago

• Topeka Zoo To Mark Orangutan Week

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 442
  The Topeka Zoo invites people to learn about orangutans during International Orangutan Awareness Week, November 8-15th. Topeka (WIBW) – They’re the red-headed, swinging sweethearts of the Topeka Zoo, and, next week, the world is asked to learn about them and the rest of their species. The Topeka Zoo invites ...
  4 days ago

• Como Park Zoo to Celebrate Orangutan Awareness Week

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 442
  Como Park Zoo & Conservatory in St. Paul is holding an Orangutan Awareness Weekend on Nov. 14 and 15, with a number of special activities. Como Zoo is currently home to four orangutans- Jambu (age 24), Amanda (age 32), Markisa (age 22), and Jaya (who is almost 2 years old). Source: ...
  5 days ago

• No to Copenhagen ‘Carbon Logging’ — YES to Orangutans

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 442
  GOOD REDD Fully Protects and Restores Old Forests as a Global Climatic Imperative By ClimateArk Climate Change Portal – a project of Ecological Internet http://www.climateark.org/ November 5, 2009 Copenhagen climate talks must not provide ‘Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation’ (REDD) carbon ...
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• Six animal dance moves guaranteed to impress women

  
  Asylum Australia — Authority: 443
  Filed under: Humour , How To , Weird For many, Friday and Saturday nights are mostly spent lunging about in sweaty nightclubs, grinding, spinning and wiggling for a glance or a wink from the female of the species. It feels like our own form of the Animal Kingdoms mating ritual, the ... Read more   ...
  6 days ago

• Actress Melanie Laurent joins forces with Greenpeace to protect Orangutans

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 442
  A handout shows French actress Melanie Laurent playing with an Orang Utan during the last day of her Indonesian rainforest tour in Riau Province November 1, 2009. Laurent has joined Greenpeace and will speak out against mass destruction of the planet’s forests as one of the main causes of climate change and a ...
  6 days ago

• There’s More to Cruising Than the Ship

  
  Avid Cruiser — Authority: 129
  No matter how long a cruise or where it is headed, they all offer shore excursions. A gallop on the beach on a horse, a Jeep trip through the jungle; or shopping, or shopping, or shopping. The most exciting shore excursion I’ve had was during a world cruise where the lucky among us visited a Finch Hatten Safari ...
  6 days ago

• Six animal dance moves guaranteed to impress women

  
  Asylum.co.uk — Authority: 571
  Filed under: Women , How To , Humour For many, Friday and Saturday nights are mostly spent lunging about in sweaty nightclubs, grinding, spinning and wiggling for a glance or a wink from the female of the species. It feels like our own form of the Animal Kingdoms mating ritual, the ... Read more   ...
  1 week ago

• Orangutan snacks on a pumpkin at the National Zoo

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 442
  Source: LA Times The National Zoo in Washington, like many other zoos around the country, is helping its animal residents celebrate Halloween with treats (healthy ones, like pumpkins — no bite-size Snickers bars here) and special Halloween-themed enrichment activities. This orangutan is seated on one of ...
  1 week ago

• Sarawak keen to increase orangutan population

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 442
  By SHARON LING KUCHING: Sarawak hopes to gradually increase its wild orangutan population through various conservation efforts and with a balanced approach to development. State forestry director Datuk Len Talif Salleh said there were currently about 2,500 orangutan in the wild in Sarawak. “What is important is ...
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• Orangutan Adoption Diary -Brian’s future is looking Rosy

  
  Orangutan Foundation — Authority: 413
  Brian Diary, October 27 th 2009 by Hudi WD I am pleased to tell you that the adoption process between the female Bornean orangutan, Rosa and the infant orangutan, Brian is going very well.   B rian was confiscated from an oil palm plantation and was taken to the Lamandau River Wildlife Reserve ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 2

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 545
  Orangutan-friendly palm oil sales are on the rise ! Yah! Vandals are throwing the community bicycles of Paris into the Seine ! Boo! Beware emotional whiplash in this roller-coaster edition of Cool Green Morning — just slip the buckle into the clasp and pull tight across your waist… Can long-range climate ...
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• Orangutan Awareness Week at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 442
  Chicago, Illinois – The Brookfield Zoo is offering visitors the chance to learn more about their primate counterparts at International Orangutan Awareness Weekend. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 14 and 15 in the Asia section of the Tropic World exhibit. Participants will learn about the ...
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• Beauty and the Beast way to boost support for orang-utan

  
  e-borneo.com - Travel Borneo Blog — Authority: 131
  Kota Kinabalu : An Orang-Utan Awareness Week (November 9-15) will see a fresh UK "beauty and the beast idea to jolt support for Sabahs beastly icon. The beauty is Hayley Bagnall who sacrificed a lucrative London corporate social responsibility consultant job to inspire a permanent future for our famous "Man of the ...
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• Butterflies and birds - diversity of life!

  
  Orangutan Foundation — Authority: 413
  The Orangutan Foundation is proud to support Indonesian students conducting research at Pondok Ambung Tropical Forest Research Station in Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. We want to encourage and help young Indonesian scientists and researchers.  Yusi (at the front) and ...
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• Human-Animal Conflicts As Aceh Forests Cut Down

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 442
  From Orangutan Outreach Nurdin Hasan, The Jakarta Globe Banda Aceh. Wild animal attacks in Aceh, particularly by elephants and Sumatran tigers, are highlighting the worsening conflict between wildlife and humans owing to the increasing destruction of natural habitat caused by illegal logging. On Tuesday evening, ...
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