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Meet Rumba: new resident at Nyaru Menteng

The orangutan baby Rumba was kept as a pet for a month before coming to the Nyaru Menteng Rehabilitation Centre. In 2022, several young, orphaned orangutans were rescued and moved to the rehabilitation centres Nyaru Menteng and Samboja Lestari. One of them was Rumba, who was less than a year […]

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Borneos children drew closer to Nature

  How do you highten the awareness of children to the troublesome state of the forest and Nature that surrounds them? One way is to draw… solutions. People that reside in close vicinity to the Borneo rainforest play a major role in protecting it. Especially young people have great potential […]

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Warnings from the UN climate panel

The UN climate panel IPCC has released its latest climate report summarizing the last nine years of research. The situation is, as expected, very serious. The report is based on 14,000 research reports and the work of hundreds of thousands researchers. It clearly shows how global warming is progressing at […]

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The unique ability of orangutans to mirror facial expressions

It is quite unique amongst mammals to be able to quickly mirror the facial expressions of their own kind. Up until 2017 we did not know that other animal species than humans could signal to one other using facial expressions. Then a study, made by researchers from Germany and England, […]

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Forest survival lessons from orangutans

The Post-release Monitoring (PRM) teams that keep an eye on the orangutans in the rainforest learn many things from observing them. For example, they find out which fruits or leaves they can eat in the rainforest. We can learn so much from orangutans. The PRM teams that observes the released […]

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World leaders negotiate new goals for biodiversity

Today, the UN Biodiversity Summit COP15 kicked off. New global targets are to be negotiated for the next 10 years of work to reverse the decline of biodiversity. Global biodiversity is in crisis. Habitat loss, climate change and pollution has led to more than a million species of animals and […]

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Baby Orangutan Rescued

Baby Orangutan Rescued

A baby orangutan was rescued and brought to the Samboja Lestari Rehabilitation Centre on August 9. The rescued male orangutan is in quarantine and is after circumstances in good health. Just after midnight on 9 August, the wildlife rescue team from the Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) delivered […]

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New climate report from the UN highlights seriousness of climate crisis

The UN’s International Panel on Climate Change published a report on Monday, assessing the latest climate research. And it does not look good. Temperatures are rising faster than before, the sea levels are rising and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent. The IPCC report can be called the world’s […]

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