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• Malaysia tracks orangutans with implants

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 145
  KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian wildlife authorities are using electronic implants to keep track of orangutans in a bid to protect the endangered apes after they are freed into the wild, an official said Tuesday. Laurentius Ambu, wildlife department head in Sabah state on Borneo island, said three orangutans had ...
  8 hours ago

• REDD may not be enough to save Sumatras endangered lowland rainforests

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A prominent REDD project in Aceh Indonesia probably wont be enough to save Northern Sumatras endangered lowland rainforests from logging and conversion to oil plantations and agriculture, report researchers writing in Environmental Research Letters. The study highlights the contradiction between the Ulu Masen ...
  2 days ago

• Transmitters implanted in orangutans for tracking after release into the wild

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  For the first time transmitters have been implanted in orangutans to track their daily movements. The Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) has implanted transmitters into three orangutans that have been released back into the wild from Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of ...
  2 days ago

• Tips for Your Antigua Cruise

  
  Travel Guides — Authority: 438
  If you are thinking about going on a Caribbean cruise for this years vacation then a stop to Antigua is one of the highlights, as this stunning island is packed full of idyllic tropical beaches and warm turquoise waters. Antigua also has a fascinating history and was once an important colonial base for the ...
  5 days ago

• Hope for another Bornean Orangutan.

  
  Orangutan Foundation — Authority: 418
  The translocation of the young female orangutan ( we rescued her last week from an oil palm plantation ) to the Lamandau River Wildlife Reserve is planned for this week. The young orangutan was named “Memes” by Tigor, Orangutan Reintroduction Manager.  Dr Fiqri, our vet, has said Memes is healthy and clear ...
  6 days ago

• Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation [REDD] programs that include landowners will conserve more habitat and ensure greater ecosystem services function than programs that focus solely on protected areas, report researchers from the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental ...
  1 week ago

• Finnish paper company to sever ties with logging firm linked to rainforest destruction in Indonesia

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Finnish paper company UPM-Kymmene will stop buying paper pulp from Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL) due to concerns over the companys poor environmental record, reports Greenpeace. UPM-Kymmene contacts represents 4 percent of APRILs total pulp production, worth over US$55 million annually, ...
  1 week ago

• "Responsible" palm oil producers pledge not to develop endangered Sumatra rainforest

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an initiative developing criteria to improve the environmental performance of palm oil, agreed to declare the Bukit Tigapuluh Ecosystem in Sumatra a high conservation value area. The decision, voted on by RSPO General Assembly members at the groups annual ...
  1 week ago

• Maulana Azad’s vision is lauded in Trinidad

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  By Paras RamoutarPort-of-Spain, Nov 13(IANS) The work and vision of India’s first minister of education Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad was highlighted during the celebration of International Scholars’ day in Chaguanas in central Trinidad.Indian High Commissioner Malay Mishra addressed graduates of the Mahatma Gandhi ...
  1 week ago

• Fingers crossed for Tripa - critical Sumatran orangutan habitat

  
  Orangutan Foundation — Authority: 418
  We have just heard that it is very likely that the Astra Agro Lestari (AAL) concession in Tripa will close down! This was reported in a local news source (see below writen in Indonesian). Apparently the article reveals that AAL is no longer in a position to endure the pressure from those “environmental NGOs”. ...
  1 week ago

• THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH EAST PENINSULA – RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THEIR CONSERVATION

  
  Kittivisian Life — Authority: 125
  By Jacqueline Armony and Lindon WilliamsThe Southeast Peninsula is perhaps the last major economic frontier on St. Kitts. The heritage resources of this area are both natural and cultural. The natural environment is particularly significant because the special geography of the area allowed for a different development ...
  2 weeks ago

• ST. KITTS IS ON SALE WITH DELTA AIR LINES

  
  Kittivisian Life — Authority: 125
  St. Kitts Celebrates the Start of its Second Weekly Non-Stop Flight from Atlanta with the Delta’s Special New Low Fares Basseterre, St. Kitts The St. Kitts Tourism Authority is pleased to celebrate the commencement of a second weekly non-stop flight from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to St. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Port-of-Spain readies to welcome Commonwealth leaders

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  By Paras RamoutarPort-of-Spain, Nov 11 (IANS) Hundreds of billboards and welcome signs have sprung up in this capital city as Trinidad and Tobago prepares to welcome Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and 51 other leaders at the opening Nov 27 of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting(CHOGM) at an $80 million ...
  2 weeks ago

• Palm oil developers push into Indonesias last frontier: Papua

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Oil palm developers in the Indonesian half of New Guinea are signing questionable deals that exploit local communities and put important forest ecosystems at risk, alleges a new report from Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak.
  2 weeks ago

• 40% of lowland forests in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo cleared in 15 years

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Forty percent of lowland forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) were cleared from 1990 to 2005, reports a new high resolution assessment of land cover change in Indonesia.
  2 weeks ago

• Orangutan Rescued From Oil Palm Plantation

  
  Orangutan Foundation — Authority: 418
  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 weeks ago

• World’s Most Elusive and Endangered Cat Caught on Film

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Researchers in Malaysian Borneo have captured the world’s most elusive and endangered cat on film. The beautiful Bornean bay cat, Catopuma badia , is so rare; a live cat was not even photographed until 1998! Read more of this story »
  2 weeks ago

• World’s Most Elusive and Endangered Cat Caught on Film

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 572
  Researchers in Malaysian Borneo have captured the world’s most elusive and endangered cat on film. The beautiful Bornean bay cat, Catopuma badia , is so rare; a live cat was not even photographed until 1998! Read more of this story »
  2 weeks ago

• Bhagvad Gita used to smuggle cocaine in Trinidad

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  By Paras RamoutarPort-of-Spain, Nov 6 (IANS) The Trinidad and Tobago police have found pages of the Hindu holy book Bhagvad Gita soaked in millions of dollars worth of liquid cocaine in a laboratory in Couva, Central Trinidad.A Venezuelan national and four citizens of Trinidad and Tobago - two men and two women - were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Important safeguards to protect rainforests lacking in REDD negotiating text

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Important safeguards to protect natural forests are still lacking in negotiating text on REDD, a proposed mechanism for mitigating climate change by paying developing countries to keep trees standing, reports an alliance of activist groups.
  2 weeks ago

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