Orangutans Displaced, Killed by Indonesian Forest Fires
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The fires have killed about a thousand orangutans, and experts say if the pace of destruction continues, the animals may be extinct within a decade.
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Azy and Indah are heading to school this week &#151; a unique experience for two clever orangutans whose classroom will eventually encompass more than 200 acres of lowlands, river forest and lakes.
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WASHINGTON -- Recent outbreaks of ebola among people in Africa also killed thousands of gorillas, a species already
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Fire retardants used worldwide in manufacturing vehicle parts and computers have been found in Puget Sound orcas, raising new concerns about the long-term health of the region's killer whales, a new Canadian study shows.
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An outbreak of Ebola virus in northwestern Republic of Congo has killed 5,000 gorillas, helping to push the threatened species even closer to extinction, a study says.
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree-ant relationship to Africa's big browsing mammals
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Up to five million people were displaced by tsunamis that killed nearly 119,000 people in Asia, officials said, as aftershocks rocked traumatised survivors.
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By ARTHUR MAX  THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Indonesia's tropical rain forests are disappearing 30 percent faster than previously estimated as illegal loggers raid national parks, threatening the long-term survival of orangutans, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
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Tens of thousands of iconic Australian creatures including koalas and kangaroos may have died in fires that swept through vast tracts of southern Australia this week, environmentalists say.
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The threat to orangutans from illegal logging may be greater than has previously been predicted.
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At least eight people were killed Tuesday as a bushfire burned out of control across a southern Australia peninsula, others were missing and six more were rescued after they escaped into the sea, officials said.
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Mankind's closest relatives are teetering on the brink of their first extinctions in more than a century, hunted by humans for food and medicine and squeezed from forest homes, a report on endangered primates said on Friday.
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Using helicopters to count endangered orang-utans gives very accurate estimates of the great apes' numbers, researchers report in Plos Biology.
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A Sumatran orangutan, thought to be the world's oldest, has died in Miami at age 55, a zoo spokesman said on Sunday .
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&quot;Thousands of bodies rotting in the tropical heat were tumbled into mass graves, but officials said polluted water posed a greater threat..&quot;. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll of the Asian tsunami disaster
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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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Asia News, BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Indonesia&#39;s death toll from the weekend&#39;s earthquake and tsunami soared past 32,500 on Wednesday as rescuers worked to make contact with devastated cities and towns in the hardest hit areas.