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2 Min Read JAMBI (Reuters) - A pair of critically endangered orangutans, rescued from smugglers on the Thai-Malaysian border in 2017, have arrived in Indonesia to undergo rehabilitation so they can finally be released back into their native forest habitat. Believed to be between the ages of four to six the orangutans, Ung Aing and Natalee, spent three years at Khao Pratab Chang Wildlife Breeding Center in central Ratchaburi province, Thailand. On Friday they arrived in western Indonesia’s Jam...

Reuters Reuters 21 December, 2020, 4:28 am There are an estimated 100,000 Bornean orangutans left in the wild, and only about 7,500 Sumatran orangutans, according to data from the World Wildlife Fund. Picture: REUTERS. JAMBI (Reuters) – A pair of critically endangered orangutans, rescued from smugglers on the Thai-Malaysian border in 2017, have arrived in Indonesia to undergo rehabilitation so they can finally be released back into their native forest habitat. Believed to be between the ages ...

December 19, 2020 published at 4:46 AMReuters An orangutan, which was seized from the Thailand-Malaysia border three years ago, looks from a cage at Sultan Thaha Saifuddin Airport in Jambi before being released into the forest, in Dec 18, 2020 Reuters JAMBI - A pair of critically endangered orangutans, rescued from smugglers on the Thai-Malaysian border in 2017, have arrived in Indonesia to undergo rehabilitation so they can finally be released back into their native forest habitat. Believed t...

Years After Being Smuggled Into Thailand, Two Orangutans are Finally on Flight Back Home News18 © Provided by News18 Years After Being Smuggled Into Thailand, Two Orangutans are Finally on Flight Back Home Eating fruit and drinking from plastic bottles, two Sumatran orangutans stared from their cages at Bangkok airport on Thursday before flying home to Indonesia, years after being smuggled into Thailand. Poachers in Southeast Asia frequently capture the critically endangered...

Published on: Friday, December 18, 2020 By: AFP Text Size: Sumatran orangutan sits in a cage before being repatriated from Thailand to Indonesia after having been smuggled into the kingdom, at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. BANGKOK: Eating fruit and drinking from plastic bottles, two Sumatran orangutans stared from their cages at Bangkok airport on Thursday before flying home to Indonesia, years after being smuggled into Thailand. Poachers in Southeast Asia frequently capture the critically ...

Two smuggled Indonesian orangutans fly home from Thailand Police said four-year-olds Ung Aing and Natalee were supposed to be sold to a tourism business H. J. I./AFP 17.12.2020 WORLD Two smuggled Indonesian orangutans fly home from Thailand Two Sumatran orangutans flew home from Thailand years after being captured and smuggled into the country Foto: AFP Eating fruit and drinking from plastic bottles, two Sumatran orangutans stared from their cages at Bangkok airport on Thursday before flying ...

  BANGKOK, THAILAND -- Eating fruit and drinking from plastic bottles, two Sumatran orangutans stared from their cages at Bangkok airport on Thursday before flying home to Indonesia, years after being smuggled into Thailand. Poachers in Southeast Asia frequently capture the critically endangered orangutans to sell as pets, and police said four-year-olds Ung Aing and Natalee were supposed to be sold to a tourism business.  Wildlife traffickers tried to smuggle the two in via Malaysia in Ju...

How does poaching harm orangutans? Sumatran orangutans are critically endangered and fewer than 15,000 of them are thought to remain in the wild. Widespread destruction of their rainforest habitat, as a result of logging, mining and palm oil production, has pushed the Sumatran orangutan to the brink of extinction. Illegal poaching of the species is another of the biggest factors affecting their declining numbers. Fragmented populations split up by roads and plantations make easy targets for tra...

Thursday, 17 Dec 2020 05:44 PM MYT A Sumatran orangutan sits in a cage before being repatriated from Thailand to Indonesia after having been smuggled into the kingdom, at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok December 17, 2020. — AFP pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. BANGKOK, Dec 17 — Eating fruit and drinking from plastic bottles, two Sumatran orangutans stared from their cages at Bangkok airport today before flying home to Indonesia, years af...