ABC News Report: Orangutan Extinction in 10 Years

Posted on July 30, 2008 by nothoney

Thanks to my friend and volunteer colleague, Olivia, for passing this report on to me. ABC News report on orangutans: The Plight of the Red Apes http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5238877 The researchers interviewed include Lone Dröscher Nielsen of Animal Planet’s “Orangutan Island” series and a representative from the World Wildlife Fund. They predict extinction of the species within [...]

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Spain Parliamentary Committee Votes for Rights for Apes

Posted on July 18, 2008 by nothoney

Yesterday DawnWatch sent out an extremely interesting alert about the Spanish Parliament’s environment committee passing a resolution granting limited rights to great apes. The Great Apes, if you’re not aware, include orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans. We share 98.7 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees and bonobos. I truly hope the Spanish Parliament’s resolution [...]

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Journal Nature: Some Species Will Be Extinct Faster Than Feared

Posted on July 7, 2008 by nothoney

This is such depressing news from “Nature” that I just didn’t feel like posting it. I’ll have more depressing news about primates in a later post. BTW, the information for the letter-writing campaign to Congress to urge them to influence Rwandan President Kagame to end his support of the rebel Nkunda in Congo is behind [...]

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Save Your Cousins From Extinction – Adopt A Bonobo!

Posted on July 4, 2008 by nothoney

The information about the letter writing campaign to the president of Rwanda is on the Wildlife Direct page on this blog. See that tab up there? Click it for the info and sample letter. Recently I took the plunge and become the adoptive mother of a baby bonobo. It seems a lot of people have [...]

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The Center for Great Apes

Posted on May 20, 2008 by nothoney

Yesterday, I drove another 2.5 hours along the same roads we took on Sunday to the Animals Asia event; not as far south. I am so glad I joined the Center and asked for the tour. It was worth every minute of driving in the rain over country roads, worth every dollar spent for gas, [...]

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New Legislation to End Invasive Research on Chimpanzees

Posted on May 6, 2008 by nothoney

Third post today! Scroll down the page for more. This Action Alert comes from HSUS. Pick up your phones and call! In nine laboratories in the U.S., approximately 1,200 chimpanzees are suffering — half of them owned by our government. Many have been warehoused as well as subjected to painful and invasive research and testing [...]

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Destruction of the Diani

Posted on April 4, 2008 by nothoney

See two new posts below this one! Take Action! page updated! Y’know those all-inclusive tourist packages that everyone is so fond of? They’re environmental and wildlife disasters. Do not travel that way! Read on! Subject: Update: 4th April 2008 Yesterday we announced that on the 31st of March 2008 The Colobus Trust management, along with [...]

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Fires Threaten Orangutan Habitat; Your Help Needed Now!

Posted on February 26, 2008 by nothoney

The Orangutan Foundation, which has a blog on Wildlife Direct, is in desperate need of simple equipment to prevent El Nina-driven fires from spreading into primary forest in Indonesia. Stephen Brend, the Orangutan Foundation’s Senior Conservationist in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, asks for donations of $2 to buy “a ‘beater,’ which consists of a bamboo pole [...]

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Mountain Gorillas in Grave Danger as Fighting Intensifies

Posted on December 5, 2007 by nothoney

We’ve been reading for the past couple of days on Wildlife Direct’s Gorilla Protection blog that the Congo army, FARDC, is attacking rebel general Laurent Nkunda. This is a long-planned push to capture Nkunda (seen here looking like the tool he is), and the FARDC is using helicopter gunships, heavy artillery, and ground troops. BBC [...]

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Donating to Save Bonobos is Really Easy

Posted on December 3, 2007 by nothoney

Second post today! Y’all know I’m a big supporter of many of the conservationists who blog at Wildlife Direct. Now they’ve developed a campaign application that makes it so easy for you to donate and support all the wonderful species featured in the blogs. I’ve chosen to create a campaign for Lola Ya Bonobo Sanctuary [...]

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