1. Palm oil company guards injure four villagers in Kalimantan clash
Four villagers were injured and several vehicles destroyed in a clash between local residents and palm oil company guards in Indonesian Borneo last week. The clash is the latest incident in a long-running conflict between Wilmar subsidiary PT Bumi Sawit Kencana and villagers in Kotawaringin Timur district, Central Kalimantan.
2. The Javan Rhino’s final stronghold
An article on the current state of a native Indonesia mammal in danger of extinction.
3. Through a new online fund-raising campaign on behalf of the Sumatran Orangutan Society featuring an animated orangutan called Armstrong, comedian Bill Bailey is asking animal lovers to help create new homes for the Sumatran orangutan by backing a rainforest restoration project that has just planted its 1,000,000th tree.
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4. Cute pictures of orphaned orangutans.
330 orphaned apes are cared for at the Orangutan Care Centre and Quarantine in Borneo, Indonesia. Human surrogate mothers look after the
orphaned and rescued orangutans
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