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Bali's drugged, smuggled orangutan heads back to the wild

Dec 17, 2019 - 10:04 AM

Bon Bon, the baby orangutan, prepares to move to a conservation center in Sumatra – one of just two places where the critically endangered species is found in the wild

A keeper holds orangutan Bon Bon at the Ngurah Rai International Airport near Denpasar on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on December 16, 2019. A baby orangutan that was drugged by a Russian trafficker in a failed bid to smuggle it out of Bali will be released back into the wild. SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP

Right whale likely died off Canada after collision with ship, says official

Jul 01, 2019 - 9:54 AM

Preliminary findings on one of the dead whales are 'highly compatible with death due to blunt trauma, consistent with vessel strike,' says Fisheries and Oceans Canada

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED. Experts peg the current population of North Atlaintic right whales to less than 500. Photo from Wikimedia Commons

Groups step up effort to save critically endangered species in Western Visayas

Jun 29, 2019 - 6:28 PM

Groups map out a conservation plan to help save critically endangered species in the region from extinction

SAVE ME. The Visayan spotted dear is among the critically endangered species in Western Visayas. Photo courtesy of Talarak Foundation

Endangered Philippine eagle killed by falling branch

Jan 25, 2014 - 2:47 PM

Days of non stop rain caused the huge branch of a tree to fall on Arakan s cage at the Philippine Eagle Foundation s center

RARE BIRD. Arakan lands in his makeshift nest in a cage at the Philippine Eagle Center in Davao City located in this 2004 file photo. File photo by Romeo Gacad/AFP