NEW IBERIA, La. - In a dome-shaped outdoor cage, a dozen chimpanzees are hooting. The hair on their shoulders sticks straight up. "That's piloerection," a sign of emotional arousal, says Dr. Dana Hasselschwert, head of veterinary sciences at the New Iberia Research Center. She tells a visitor to keep his distance. The chimps tend to throw pebbles - or worse - when they get excited.

06/12/2011
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mongabay.com | Rhett Butler | December 2011

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Two Indonesian plantation companies have signed an agreement to train workers not to kill or injure orangutans and other protected species. 

The agreement was brokered by the Indonesian government between Orangutan Foundation International (OFI), a non-profit with operations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, and two major plantation firms: PT Smart, one of Indonesia's largest palm oil producers, and PT Lontar Papyrus, which supplies wood-pulp to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). Both companies are holdings of the Sinar Mas Group.

06/12/2011
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Africa is Losing its Deforestation Battle and Action Needed, Says Experts

allAfrica | December 2011

The UN-based fund that helps compensate developing countries combat deforestation should start fighting the causes as well as the effects. That was one of the main recommendations from forestry experts who gathered at the climate change conference, COP 17, in Durban.

The discussion mainly focused on deforestation in Africa, particularly in the Congo Basin, which has the second largest rainforest after South America.

05/12/2011
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The Observer |Lizzy Davis | November 2011

Conservationists have called on the Indonesian authorities to take urgent action to save the orangutan after a report warned that the endangered great apes were being hunted at a rate that could bring them to the brink of extinction.

27/11/2011
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The Jakarta Post | November 2011

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JAKARTA: The Center for Orangutan Protection (COP) says the Indonesian government is too slow in taking legal action against the killers of orangutans in Kalimantan even though the slaughter has been taking place at oil-palm plantations belonging to Malaysian companies around Kalimantan.

24/11/2011
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Sunday Morning Herald | November 2011

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Two Indonesian plantation workers have been arrested for allegedly killing at least 20 endangered orang-utans and proboscis monkeys as a means of pest control. Police said the suspects admitted to chasing down the primates with dogs, then shooting, stabbing or hacking them to death with machetes.

24/11/2011
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