Thailand to return 48 orangutans to Indonesia
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Thailand is set to return 48 orangutans to Indonesia after the endangered animals were seized from a Bangkok zoo two years ago, a government official has said.
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Indonesia is returning 17 rare pygmy kangaroos to the Papuan rain forest after rescuing and acquiring them in recent years from illegal traders and private zoos, officials said Monday. It is unknown how many of the mammals, which can grow up to three-feet long and weigh 25 pounds, still survive in the wild.
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By CHRIS BRUMMITT  JAKARTA, Indonesia - The first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in more than 100 years is headed to Indonesia on Tuesday with a single task - to breed and help save the endangered species from extinction.
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Researchers in a remote jungle in Indonesia have discovered a giant rat and a tiny possum that are apparently new to science, underscoring the stunning biodiversity of the Southeast Asian nation, scientists said Monday.
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Dozens of orangutans forced to box each other in a Thai amusement park returned home Wednesday to start a new life in a jungle reserve on their native island of Borneo, officials said.
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Thailand ordered a cull of 40 tigers  suspected of suffering from bird flu Wednesday after seven more  of the big cats died, bringing the tiger death toll at an  infected zoo to 30.
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The threat to orangutans from illegal logging may be greater than has previously been predicted.
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A wildlife park is widening its collection of animals to include Japanese macaques.
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Thailand's parks and wildlife reserves could hold up to 2,000 wild tigers, about three times their current level, but only if the government steps up efforts to control poaching, researchers said Monday.
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Thai scientists began an investigation Monday into what some conservationists believe could be the world's biggest case of ape smuggling -- nearly 100 orangutan found in a Bangkok amusement park.
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Skin and bones of endangered Sumatran tigers are sold openly in parts of Indonesia for traditional medicine and jewelry despite bans, a trend that could mean the big cats' eventual extinction, a conservation group warned Wednesday.
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Deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will return to Thailand from a self-imposed exile before May, the kingdom's new foreign minister said Friday.
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106 chimpanzees, 32 orangutans and 105 babies face "The Primate Cognition Test Battery.".
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Science & environment: Body parts of the critically endangered animal are being sold openly in Indonesia, says report
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PHANG NGA, Thailand  - Thailand is to exhume  hundreds buried after the Indian Ocean tsunami, restarting the  task of putting names to thousands of unidentified bodies,  including those of many foreign tourists.
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By CHRIS BRUMMITT JAKARTA, Indonesia - The first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in more than 100 years arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday with a single task - to breed and help save the endangered species from extinction.
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The Natural History Museum is to return the remains of 18 aboriginal people to the Australian government.