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Matt Walker
Editor, Earth News
Two female orangutans have been seen cannibalising the bodies of their recently deceased babies. Such behaviour has never before been recorded in any great ape species.
21/05/2009
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The Malaysian government's federal land agency (FELDA) is now denying its well-documented plan to develop oil palm plantations in the Amazon rainforest, reports Ecological Internet, a forest advocacy group that carried out a campaign against the project
http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0521-felda.html
21/05/2009
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Only 1% of sustainable palm oil has been bought because some supermarkets won't put their money where their mouth is
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/21/palm-oil-greenwash
21/05/2009
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By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
The Government has joined calls for Britain's best-selling household groceries to use sustainable palm oil.
The Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said the Government was "greatly concerned" by the impact of palm oil production in South-east Asia, where it causes extensive deforestation and threatens the survival of the orangutan and other rare animals.
19/05/2009
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A Congolese nurse who travels to remote sections of central Africa to rescue bonobos and once left her family to spend Christmas day nursing an orphaned bonobo back to health has won the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) Siddle-Marsden Award for 2009, given annually to the African caregiver that best exemplifies the spirit of conservation and dedication at primate sanctuaries.
18/05/2009
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Associated Press Writer Russ Cochran fondly recalls the fun he had with his chimpanzee when the animal was younger, taking him for rides in the car and to his cabin on the river. Boaters would stop to see Sammy, who would jump in canoes and help himself to food and drinks from the cooler. "That would be the price of admission for him," Cochran says. "He would drink beer if you let him. He liked beer."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8511328
17/05/2009
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