[ad_1] It’s bad enough that pandas are traded back and forth between China and the US, every time diplomatic ties between them take a turn for the better or worse. Now Malaysia mulls “orangutan diplomacy”. So countries buying palm oil from Malaysia will be gifted an orangutan — to show its commitment to “biodiversity conservation”. […]
Va. man who funded animal abuse videos in Indonesia pleads guilty
[ad_1] A Virginia man who funded videos shot in Indonesia of monkeys being tortured and killed, and shared them with other users via online messaging groups, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a conspiracy to distribute videos depicting extreme animal abuse. Federal prosecutors said Michael Macartney, 51, of Chesapeake, Va., and his associates used an encrypted messaging […]
The elusive wildlife animal Attenborough echidna rediscovered in Indonesia
[ad_1] JAKARTA (AFP): An elusive echidna feared extinct after disappearing for six decades has been rediscovered in a remote part of Indonesia, on an expedition that also found a new kind of tree-dwelling shrimp. The Zaglossus Attenboroughi, a kind of long-beaked echidna named for famed British naturalist David Attenborough, had last been seen in 1961. […]