Veera was the 40th orangutan birth to date at the Singapore Zoo, which has the largest social colony of endangered Sumatran and Bornean sub-species orangutans.
Does this mean that Indonesia's social groups of orangutans are smaller? And could this be because of the rampant deforestation in favour of palm oil plantations developed by Singapore-based conglomerates?
A worker arranges snakes to be dried at a snake slaughterhouse in the village of Kapetakan, Indonesia. The dried meat is exported to China and Taiwan for medicine and food.
Why don't China and Taiwan have their own snake farms? Or were the pictured snakes captured in the wild where they are a vital part of the eco-system - if it hasn't (yet) been decimated?
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