Spain awards apes legal rights

Spanish Parliament has approved a resolution to grant chimps, gorillas, and orangutans statutory rights previously reserved for their human cousins. Support for this action has crossed party lines and is expected to...

Girl Scouts boycott cookies to save apes

Some plucky Girl Scouts have decided to take a stand on the cookies that group is famous for. They've learned the production of palm oil, an ingredient in the cookies, is bad for the habitat of endangered Indonesian...

Indonesia pins hopes on forests at Bali meeting

"Even though it has lost an estimated 70 percent of its original frontier forest, it still has a total forest area of more than 225 million acres (91 million hectares), with a host of exotic plants and animals waiting to be discovered.The richest forests are found in Borneo...

Malaysia returns four orangutans to Indonesia

""It was found that these four orangutans were different from the other species," Mohamad Nawayai Yasak, director at the zoo in western Malacca state, was quoted as saying by The Star. Mohamad Nawayai said two of the...

Yudhoyono hopes RI-Australia partnership will improve people`s welfare

""Though Kalimantan belongs to Indonesia, the benefits of its forests, peat land and biodiversity are also felt by other countries," the Indonesian head of state said here on Sunday after witnessing the signing of an...

Talk About A Niche: Online Dating Site For Orangutans

"Yes, we all realize that the internet and all that "long tail" stuff means that perhaps there really is a space for narrowly focused niche sites... but did anyone really expect an online dating site for orangutans? Turns out some zookeepers are setting up such a site with...

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