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MOM: A Mother's Day Gift for the Whole Family

Pamela Poole | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Indonesia, Palm Oil Production, Orangutans, Malaysia, Endangered Species, Borneo, Palm Oil, Orangutans Endangered, Impact News

To lift your spirits, celebrate Mother's Day, and give your kids the priceless, lasting gift of eco-consciousness and civic responsibility... Why not spend a day at the zoo celebrating motherhood?

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PHOTOS: Exploring Lost Worlds

Black Tomato | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Papua New Guinea, Bespoke Travel, Black Tomato, Borneo, Mayan Temple, Lost Worlds, Slidepollajax, Costa Rica, Travel News

Recalling the vivid and exotic images Doyle painted of South America has got us thinking about the places in today's world that still hark back to an age of strange, unexplored lands.

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PHOTOS: Where The Wild Things Are

Kensington Tours | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Rwanda, Manitoba, India, Antarctica, Indonesia, Ecuador, Slidepollajax, Okavango-Delta, Borneo, Botswana, Kalahari Desert, Churchill, Canada, Galapagos Islands, Travel News

Discovering the Acropolis, seeing the Mona Lisa, walking on the Great Wall and watching the sunrise over the Taj Mahal are all undeniably spectacular travel experiences, yet nothing can compare to encountering the spellbinding magic of meeting Mother Nature's majestic creatures up close and in person.

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Borneo Pygmy Elephant Fatally Gores Australian Tourist

AP | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Video, Pygmy Elephant Goring, Jenna O'Grady Donley Pygmy Elephant Goring, Indonesia, Jenna O'Grady Donley Dead, Elephants, Pygmy Elephants, Animal Attacks, Jenna O'Grady Donley Killed, Borneo, Animals, Jenna O'grady Donley, Pygmy Elephant, Green News

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- A pygmy elephant fatally gored an Australian tourist in a remote Malaysian wildlife reserve on Borneo island, an offici...

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Will Orangutans Become Extinct Before the Conservation Community Gets Its Game on?

Jamie Bechtel | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Women, FSC Certified, New Course, Protected Areas, Orangutans, Environment, Conservation, Bushmeat, Borneo, Jamie Bechtel, Natural Resource Management, Deforestation, Palm Oil, Green News

Visiting orangutans in the wilds tops my bucket list and it is clear I am running out of time. Nearly 700 orangutans were just slaughtered by local villagers in Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo.

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I Scout for Baby Orangutans That Vaguely Resemble My Ex-Girlfriend

Harmon Leon | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary, Borneo, Orangutans, Terra Incognito Ecotour, Dr. Zauis, Ged Caddick, Red Ape Encounters, Comedy News

Breaking up is hard to do. Especially when the baby orangutans in the jungles of Borneo slightly resemble my gingered-haired ex-girlfriend. I'm not ...

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How Two 15-Year-Old Girl Scouts Are Changing a Giant Food Conglomerate

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

When Kellogg's announced that it is moving to limit the deforestation caused by the palm oil it uses to make Girl Scout cookies, it represented an enormous achievement for two 15-year-old girls from Michigan.

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Indonesia Mulls Plans To Relocate Capital City

AP | ALI KOTARUMALOS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Capital City, Jakarta, New Indonesian Capital City, New Capital City, Indonesia Relocating Capital, Borneo, Indonesia, Jakarta Indonesia, Jonggol, World News

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's president has a solution for the country's overcrowded, gridlocked and flood-prone capital: Move it. "If we're...

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The Creepy Gomantong Cave of Borneo

Harmon Leon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blair Witch, Borneo, Terra Incognita, Gomantong Cave, Travel News

Borneo's Gomantong cave is basically nature's real-life haunted house.

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Wild Man of Borneo

Harmon Leon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terra Incognita's Ecotours, Sabah, New Zealand, Borneo, Terra Incognita, Malaysia, Ecotourism, Travel News

I spent this summer in the jungles of Borneo, partaking in a 10-day trek through the northern Malaysian state of Sabah.

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Why the fight for the Gulf is also in Borneo

Jamie Henn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Borneo, Climate Change, 350.Org, Gulf Oil Spill, Coal, Global Warming, Green News

I've had a hard time wrenching my eyes away from the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon began spewing poison just over 100 days ago. Google Maps tells m...

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Orangutan Genocide Continues in Indonesia

Deborah Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indonesia, Borneo, Cites, Sumatra, Activism, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Palm Oil, Orangutans, Extinction, Conservation, Green News

This highly sophisticated species whose DNA is 97 percent similar to homo sapiens will be the first great ape to become extinct if urgent action is not immediately taken.

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Pollution in Paradise: Coal Plant Threatens Borneo

Jamie Henn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malaysia, Climate-Change, Borneo, Coal, Green News

Right now, in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo, locals are in a David vs. Goliath fight against a 300 MW coal fired power plant. The proposed site for the plant? One of the world's most bio-diverse marine environments.

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What's Up With the Rainforest: Stopping Rainforest Destruction Can Cut World Emissions By 17%

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Willie Smits, Thomas Friedman, Bp, Borneo, American Electric Power, Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Study, Rainforest Alliance, Brazil, James Boyce, Damian Kanya, Green News

Working with The Rainforest Alliance, we helped create The Rainforest NewsLadder. Every couple of weeks I will check in to see what's buzzing, and provide you with the latest news and media.

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A Climate Threat, Rising From The Soil

washingtonpost.com | Andrew Higgins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green News, Carbon Dioxide, Peat Forests, Climate Change, Borneo, Peat, Carbon, Soil, Green News

Peat, formed over thousands of years from decomposed trees, grass and scrub, contains gigantic quantities of carbon dioxide, which used to stay locked...

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Indigenous Peoples Discuss Climate Change

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newtok-Alaska, Borneo, Anchorage, Copenhagen, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, Nepal, Home News

Indigenous peoples, who have been hard hit by the ravages of global warming, were gathering in Alaska Monday for talks on the impact of climate change...

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Indonesia: New Orangutan Population Found

AP | ROBIN McDOWELL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Endangered Animals, Orangutans Indonesia, Orangutan, Indonesia Orangutans, Indonesia, Orangutans, Borneo, Animals, World News

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Conservationists have discovered a new population of orangutans in a remote, mountainous corner of Indonesia _ perhaps as m...

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Malaysian Man Stabbed To Death For Hogging Karaoke Microphone

guardian.co.uk | Ian MacKinnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malays, Malaysia, Borneo, Karaoke, World News

A Malaysian karaoke enthusiast hogged the microphone for so long that people set upon him and stabbed him to death. Abdul Sani Doli refused to hand o...

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Why do Oragutans Care About Global Warming?

Todd Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orangutans, Environment, Borneo, Palm Oil, Global Warming, Birute Gladikas, Global Climate Change, Green News

In short, the very events that are driving the Orangutan to extinction are the same that threaten our planet's climate.

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