Despite winning some legal rights in an Argentine court and the hopeful news that the delapidated Buenos Aires zoo where she lived would be closed, Sandra the orangutan is no closer to freedom today than she ever was. For more, visit http://buff.ly/2d1RADH
GRASP coordinator Doug Cress met with officials from the Humane Society International and the delegations of Liberia and the United States at the 17th CITES Conference of the Parties this week to discuss options and provide updates regarding the 63 chimpanzees abandoned on islands by the New York Blood Center in Liberia. http://ift.tt/2dqAXnp
The crisis involving the 63 chimpanzees abandoned by the New York Blood Center after decades of biomedical testing is profiled in a recent article in The Washington Post. For more, visit http://buff.ly/2dpsMch
An infant male Bornean orangutan being carried inside a rice sack by two hunters with an air rifle in Central Kalimantan was seized this week by the Indonesian wildlife authority (BKSDA) and the Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP). Estimated to be less than a year old, the orangutan is the 14th seized since August, and is being transferred to Orangutan Foundation International’s rehabilitation centre in Pangkalan Bun. For more, visit http://ift.tt/1P52STj http://ift.tt/2cNGcKL
An infant male Bornean orangutan who had been illegally for a year as a pet in a village in Sangatta, East Kalimantan, was seized this week by Kutai National Park authorities), in collaboration with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) Samboja Lestari team. Nicknamed “Dungur,” the orangutan is estimated to be 2 years of age, is the sixth critically endangered Bornean orangutan seized this month. For more, visit http://ift.tt/1WKC2IN http://ift.tt/2cHUvoI
