What’s wrong with visiting orangutan (and other great ape) rehabilitation centres? Orangutans undergoing rehabilitation should not/must not be exposed to the public for two reasons: 1. Risk of disease transmission – orangutans who contract diseases such as hepatitis, tuberculosis and … Continued
Rainforest Action Network has produced an excellent report on financiers which backs companies involved in forest destruction, including for palm oil. The report can be viewed at this website: http://forestsandfinance.org/ Meanwhile, Clean Malaysia has published article with a summary of … Continued
Lasah is a 37 year old wild born elephant who has suffered in zoos, tourism and entertainment for over 25 years. Please click here to help #FreeLasah. Lasah has been forced to work in a logging camp, lived … Continued
Below we post a special commentary by the CEO of Nature Alert regarding the dreadful condition of many zoos Indonesia. Orangutans and other wildlife are mismanaged and abused by uncaring zoos and they need urgent help. — Zoos in … Continued
Help us #FreeLasah! We have just launched our photo campaign in our continued efforts to free Lasah the elephant from a life of torment on the holiday island of Langkawi to a elephant sanctuary in Cambodia. This wild born elephant … Continued
PepsiCo, one of the biggest food manufacturers in the world, has been exposed again for its use of Conflict Palm Oil. Manik, who is trafficked into work on a Malaysian palm oil plantation, trapped in debt and without his passport; … Continued
In May this year The Star exposed deforestation of valuable forests in the state of Kedah. Not long after consultancy group AidEnvironment released a damning report of thrashing of forest in the state. Timber from logging in the state … Continued
Last year you helped us in our campaign for Katarina the orangutan at the horrible Kuala Lipis Zoo in the Peninsular Malaysia. She was the lone orangutan at the zoo and was kept in awful conditions. After several months of … Continued
A letter by the director of Friends of the Orangutans Malaysia was recently published by Free Malaysia Today, regarding the impact of massive, unsustainable & unethical orangutan tourism at the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre (SORC) —- May 18, 2016 … Continued
Below is the statement by FOTO regarding the sorry state of wildlife in the atrocious Miri Crocodile Farm in Sarawak. FOTO has written to Sarawak wildlife authorities asking for all sun bears to be confiscated and other animals helped, urgently. … Continued