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Adopt an Orangutan with WWF.
Adventure With a Capital “A”! - are you ready for an extreme challenge to rasie money for orang-utans?
An Immodest Proposition, or the Last Prejudice - Spanish government proposes life and freedom rights for great apes.
Animal Info - Orang-utan
Animal Planet episode on Orang-utan Island documentary, Jan 8th, 2008 - audio podcast episode.
Atlanta Zoo's Orangutans Play Video Games - Atlanta Zoo's Sumatran orang-utans are a whizz with the touch-screen.
Audley Travel - orang-utan slide show.
Australian Orangutan Project supports many orang-utan conservation organisations.
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Baby joy for rescued orang-utan
Bali Travel.com: OrangUtan, Camp Leakey, Orang Utan Adventure, Pangkalanbun - Borneo Island
BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Bornean orang-utan
BBC NEWS | Americas | 'World's oldest' orang-utan dies
BBC NEWS | Orangutan ruse misleads predators orang-utans sometimes hold a leaf to their mouths to make their voices sound deeper.
BBC TV - Orangutan Diary - series broadcast in Aprial 2007 showing the work of an orang-utan rehabilitation centre.
BBCIndonesia.com | Laporan Mendalam | Orang utan terancam manusia
English translation, "Orang utan terancam manusia Orang Utan threatened by humans".
Biofuel boom endangers orangutan habitat
Blogging For Orang Utan - using blogging as a way of engaging young people in the campaign to save the orang-utan.
Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre gets overwhelming support - The Centre will be built next to the Sepolok Rehabilitation Centre, thanks to an auction with matching funds from the State Government.
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Borneo Highlights | Borneo Tours
Borneo Orang Utan Survival Group Volunteers needed
Borneo Project Awarded 85,000 Euros from the Netherlands - boost to World Land Trust effortto protect the orang-utan habitat in Borneo. Also visit
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Bukit Merah Bashed for Orang Utan Pampering - Orang-utan Island comes in for some criticism.
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Cambridge Rainforest Appeal boosts hope for Borneo’s orangutans - key land purchase increases chance of conservation.
Camp Leakey, Orang Utan Adventure Pangkalanbun - Borneo Island
Carbon Credits Could Help Orangutans, Elephants: Discovery News
Channel 4 TV, UK, Unreported World reported on June 10th, 2011 on illegal trade in animals and deforestation in Indonesia.
'Chokolit' - the new handmade, delicious and environmentally aware British chocolate collection - no illegal palm oil, and you contribute to orang-utan projects as you buy.
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Dayak people call for a helping hand - people as well as orang-utans struggle to earn a living, even when they own the land.
Dine at Zoo's restaurant and help save orang utans - if you're in Auckland, NZ,, on Nov 9th, 2008, you could have a unique dining plus 'meet the animals' experience, and help survival funds for orang-utans.
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Environment Weekly: Orang-utan protest from The Guardian. Has audio on this page, or you can
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Everyclick - fundraise online for Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK - at no cost to you, you can use the Everyclick search engine to do your internet searches and raise money for BOS UK as you go.
Exploring Borneo Tropical Rainforest - orang-utan sanctuaries are just one of the many delights.
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Films for Conservation includes material on orang-utans and gibbons. Also visit the connected
Orangutan film Protection Project. Blog.
Five years to save the orang utan| Conservation | Guardian Unlimited Environment
Friends of the Earth: FAQs: I've heard that products containing palm oil are seriously damaging rainforests. How can I avoid such products?
Forests losing battle against plantations - this article shows the scale of deforestation in Indonesia.
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Hope of freedom for orang-utans dashed - withdrawal of major mining company from Kalimantgan may endanger many orang-utans.
[mp3 audio] How Orangutans Traverse Treetops - Scientific American 60-second podcast episode.
How to Make a Difference: 5 Reasons to Stop Buying Products Made using Palm Oil
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Indonesia: New Orangutan Population Found - the orang-utans live in a remote, mountainous area not attractive to developers.
Indonesia's Endangered Orangutan: Palm Oil and Pet Trade Threaten World's Only Arboreal Great Ape
Indonesia's orangutans squeezed by biofuel boom - World Environment - MSNBC.com
Is Telepathic Communication Possible? -- New Book Tells the Fascinating Tale of An Orangutan Who Communicates Telepathically With a Retiring Newspaper Reporter.
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Kalimantan - Borneo - Indonesia tourism, wildlife, nature, accomodation....
Komodotours.com - discover Komodo, Flores, Sumba, Timor, Celebes, West Papua Islands, bali, bali hotels, bali resorts, bali villas, wildlife, dragon, national park, ecotours, bird watching, orang utan, bali hotels
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Land Battle for Sumatra's Apes - things may be tough for orang-utans in Borneo, but they are even worse in Sumatra, threatening the one group of apes that has a tool-making culture.
Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest, by H. Lyn White Miles
Laughter not confined to human beings, apes can laugh too - studies have traced the evolution of sounds in apes, and find that humans are closest in this to chimjpanzees and bonobos, but there are some similarities to orang-utans, too.
Linkinn Clever orang-utan - photos.
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Malaysia Sepilok Orang Utan Photo Gallery - 25 high quality pictures - Stock photography, photos, pictures
Malaysian Palm Oil Producers Lead World in Adopting Strictest Sustainability Standards - United Plantations supply sustainable plam oil to america.
Malua Wildlife: Orangutans in the BioBank - environmental market may be more profitable than palm oil for Malaysia's Sabah State.
My orangutans sensed I'd had cancer - they were so gentl with me when I was weak - the story of Michelle Desilets of the Orangutan Survival Foundation UK and her cancer treatment, and some amazingly sensitive orang-utan behaviour.
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New Britain Palm Oil to open UK refinery - growing demand for more ethical palm oil will dribve supply.
New deal to rescue Borneo orangutans in Malaysia - land being bought back from palm oil companies for forest refuge.
New Research Suggests Orangutans Not so Solitary
New threat to orangutan: Biofuel demand is endangering sanctuaries for apes on Borneo - even National Parks are not immune from encroachment by palm oil companies, thanks to corrupt and ineffective officials in Indonesia.
Not a job for the faint of heart.... - he never dreamed he'd be contributing to the zoo's sperm bank!
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Oil palm plantations are no substitute for tropical rainforests - new study shows reductions in biodiversity when plantations replace forests - and it's unnecessary to cause the devastation.
Operation Orangutan: Adventures of Riley - one of a series of adventure books for the curious child, with many colour photos.
Orang utan - Wikipedia Also visit
orang utan - Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, ensiklopedia bebas
Orang utan on IndonesianMusic.com.
Orang utan expert amazed at Sabah's conservation - Dr Birute Mary Galdikas, a world expert on orang-utans, praises the progress in conserving wild-life.
orang utan head count
Orangutan - visit Sumatra and Borneo - See Orang-Utans in Borneo and Sumatra before it's too late! Tour operator based Abergele, Wales.
Orangutan: Natural History Notebooks online from the Canadian Museum of Nature
Orang-utan haven to be destroyed in forest clearance - Asian Pulp & Paper threaten important area of Sumatra.
Orangutan Information Centre - sponsored by the Sumatran Orangutan Society
Orang-utan information on WikiSpaces
Orang-utan project at Sepilok
orang utan Republik Education Initiative - Home
Orang Utan's Playtime Childrens Book - age 18 months to 3 years. Photography.
Orang-utan '08 Blog - Updates from the team of the Orang-utan '08 expedition from the University of Aberdeen.
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Orang-utan communication is like charades - life - 02 August 2007 - New Scientist
Orang-utan enjoys the Journal - Grantham Today
Orangutan Foundation blog.
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Orangutan Foundation UK
Orangutan Foundation International
Orangutan Foundation UK - How to Help
Orang-utan numbers declining sharply as forest makes way for palm oil farms
Orang Utan Project - volunteering at Sepilok Conservation Project.
Orangutan saviour supplies clean drinking water-newly-planted forest restores habitat and has some good side-effects.
Orangutan survival group seeks help - Mahal in Milwaukee - appeal for translators (German, Nordic languages, Indonesian).
Orang-utans and lion latest victims of China milk scandal
Orangutan's spontaneous whistling opens new chapter in study of evolution of speech - Great Ape Trust scientists are studying this unexpectd extension to an orang-utan's sound repertoire.
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Palm Oil Action Australian campaign site. Info, videos and calls to act.
Palm oil exports at risk from overseas buyers boycott originally from the Jakarta Post.
Palm Oil Producers Contribute for Orangutan Conservation originally from TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:
PALM OIL PRODUCT LIST - put together to highlight the items that contain palm oil, and to encourage people to put pressure on the companies that use it.
Paul Young and Tony Hadley kick off NZ tour - not just 80s nostalgia, they're playing for Sumatran wildlife.
Pilot Guides.com: Wild man of Borneo: Sepilok Orang Utan Centre
Pitt anthropologist offers different opinion of humans' closest kin - chimps or orangs? The debate rages on.
Pledge to protect Sumatran fores - even the Indonesian government realises the problems that illegal forst clearance is causing.
primates.com : great apes : orang utan ; Pongo Pygmaeus
Project Gutenberg: Classic Orangutan Text Available for Free Download - this is "The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise" by Alfred Russell Wallace.
Protestors look to make a monkey out of Unilever - the Greenpeace protest of Spring, 2008. Unilever accused of destroying orang-utan rain-forest habitat to produce palm oil. Also visit
Greenpeace orang-utans swing into action against Dove
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Radio Netherlands Worldwide > The Research File > Orang-utans of Borneo on the edge -
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Rise in weeks in certified non-rain forest palm oil - German optimism over certified palm oil.
RSPO - Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil - promoting the growth and use of sustainable palm oil.
Rusti, the Orang Utan at Honolulu Zoo
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Sabah, Borneo, Sabah tourism
Sabah's Orang utan documentary to be shown to 260 mil viewers in November 2009 - Kuala Lumpur-based company to film around Borneo from mid-year.
San Francisco Sentinel � Blog Archives � ORANGUTAN HUNTS FISH WITH SPEAR
Save the Orangutan - BOS UK - Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) has 4 major projects in Borneo, and needs your help to carry on its work.
Save the Orang-utans Forum - this is really a blog where you can post your views and activities.
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Save The Tripa Swamps - Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme - written by Ian Singleton, Director of Conservation, Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme(SOCP).
Saiving the Heart of Borneo- the work ofo World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Sepilok Nature Resort / Orang Utan Sanctuary - Sandakan - Reviews of Sepilok Nature Resort / Orang Utan Sanctuary - TripAdvisor
Sepilok Orangutan Appeal UK " Orangutan information
Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre
Sime Darby To Send First Shipment Of Traceable Palm Oil To Holland - sustainable palm oil headed for Europe.
Sir David Attenborough calls for more protection for orang-utans - arguments for saving the rain forests where orang-utans live rather than conserving them in captivity.
"Smart" Orang-Utan Uses Sticks In Zoo Escape - want to know how to get over an electric fence? Ask your local orang-utan!
Spearfishing orang-utans amaze experts, Natural World - not only can orang-utans swim, but they stun fish before eating it too.
Sumatra's dark, satanic mills - a Greenpeace photographer documents the Wilmar palm oil plantation and processing factory.
Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme(SOCP)
[video] The Red Ape
Sumatran orang-utan now in serious decline
Swimming orang-utans' spearfishing exploits amaze the wildlife experts
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The Body Shop Activist - Striving for social and environmental justice. Among the issues here is that of using orang-utans for boxing matches in Thailand.
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The MIPS Orang Utan cDNA Project
The Orangutan Conservancy | Wild Orangutan Protection | Orangutan Reintroduction | Orangutan Research & Education
The sights to see in Borneo including Sabah - Kota Kinabalu, Mt. Kinabalu, poring, Sandakan orang-utan rehabilitation centre, Selingan (Turtle) Island
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UN says Palm Oil Industry is Wiping out the Orang Utan (TreeHugger)
Unilever blocking deforestation for palm oil from San Francisco Chronicle, February 1, 2009. Unilever calls for a moratorium on on palm oil plantations in the light of urgent global warming issues.
Unilever targeted in orang-utan protest | Environment |guardian.co.uk
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Victims of the oil rush this article, from the UK Independent newspaper, claims that 43 out of 100 top products in the UK contain the type of palm oil that is contributing to the deforestation of Indonesia.
Visit Indonesia Blog -
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Vital lessons at orang-utan 'Oxbridge' - "The discovery of a group of privileged primates teaching each other sophisticated behaviour hints at the way human intellect has evolved"
Volunteer 4 Conservation - includes an article on
Volunteer for the Orang-utan Tropical Peatland Project 2009. The site also has a video podcast (Miro required).
Vox.com - search for items tagged "orang-utan" - blog posts, photos, discussions, videos, etc.
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World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation
World Land Trust: Orang-utan Appeal: Protecting Critical Corridors for Orang-utans in Borneo
Why are orang-utans so like us? - New Scientist article looks at similarities and differences.
WWF - search for Orang-Utan pages
WWF-UK: Orang-utans
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Atlanta zoo's Orangutans Play Video Games - Atlanta Zoo's Sumatran orang-utans are a whizz with the touch-screen.