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(126) articlesCorporations Plan To Destroy Remaining Orangutan Habitat
terça, 10 fevereiro 2015 00:00
Climate Change Solutions | Gary Chandler | 10th February 2015 Orignial Article Editor’s Note: If Indonesia and Malaysia plan to industrialize the entire islands of…
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Return to wild of formerly blind Sumatran orangutan mother of twins after ground-breaking surgery
sexta, 09 janeiro 2015 00:00
Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (www.sumatranorangutan.org) January 9th, 2015, Medan, Indonesia On Monday January 5th 2015, Gober, a formerly blind orangutan mother of twins was returned…
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EXPOSED: Shocking trade in baby orangutans being bred as playthings for the Russian super-rich for £24,000 each
terça, 06 janeiro 2015 00:00
Will Stewart and Simon Tomlinson | MAILONLINE | 6 January 2015 | Full article with photos at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2891073/Shocking-Russian-trade-baby-orangutans-bred-playthings-super-rich-25-000-each.html#ixzz3PAgeNATK Endangered species have become victims of booming…
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Trafficking great ape body parts in Cameroon
domingo, 04 janeiro 2015 00:00
By Eugene Nforngwa | Al Jazeera – January 4 2015 Al Jazeera Original Article https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/trafficking-great-ape-body-parts-cameroon-120453127.html Yaounde, Cameroon - For years, traffickers fuelled the slaughter of…
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Ten Years After the Tsunami, Aceh Faces New “Development Disasters”
segunda, 29 dezembro 2014 00:00
10 years after the 2004 tsunami that claimed over 200,000 lives in Aceh, the province remains highly vulnerable to disasters. At a Public Discussion held…
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Tradeoff: Sabah banks on palm oil to boost forest protection
quarta, 10 dezembro 2014 17:39
Last month Sabah set aside an additional 203,000 hectares of protected forest reserves, boosting the Malaysian state's extent of protected areas to 21 percent of…
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