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The directors of the Limpopo National Park (PNL) in Mozambique have announced that poachers have wiped out all the rhinos in the park. Poachers traffic in rhino horns to meet the Asian market demand for preparations believed to have medicinal properties.
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A discovery of dozens of ancient skeletons has been found in a cave in Indonesia. Researchers say the remains are thousands of years old.
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A group of influential healthcare professionals from around Southeast Asia are teaming together to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the region.
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A Canadian mining company has announced that it expects the governor of Sumatra’s Aceh province to allow it to destroy 1.2 million hectares of valuable and currently protected rainforest.
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Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA), a palm oil company, have completely destroyed the rainforest for miles around in this area of Borneo, Indonesia. Sitting on top of what is left of the last tree, an orangutan looks helplessly on.
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IFC Films has released the trailer for the upcoming Indonesian action thriller movie known as "Java Heat" which stars Mickey Rourke.
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British Granny, Lindsay Sandiford, 56, banged up in Bali in January for trafficking £1.6 million (US$2.5 million) worth of cocaine has had her appeal against her death sentence rejected.
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The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) says it has rescued two young orangutans held as illegal pets in the Tripa peat swamp area of Aceh, Indonesia.
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Conservation groups in Indonesia, are wholly rejecting a new Aceh Government spatial plan to reduce its protected forest area from 68% to 45%, a loss of 1.2 million hectares. The plan will wreak devastation on local communities and wildlife.
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San Diego -
With the increasing variety of conflicting island and seaway issues among South-western Pacific nations, it comes as no surprise the American Navy is deploying the first of at least four light combat vessels of the new Freedom Class to this region.
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Earth Hour, the world’s largest movement for the planet, launched its campaign for 2013 in Singapore on February 27. This year Earth Hour will take place on Saturday, March 23 at 8:30 p.m. in time zones throughout the world.
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An Indonesian mother reportedly became so concerned about her nine-year-old son's small penis that she drowned him in the bathtub to prevent him from suffering the consequences of the "handicap" later in life.
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Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) is reporting that two dolphins held in a Bali Indonesian restaurant have been kidnapped ahead of an agreement by Indonesia's Forestry Minister to release them for rehabilitation.
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The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) is reporting that they recently confiscated another illegally kept orangutan that was torn from its mom in the Tripa Peat Swamp forests of Aceh, Indonesia and sold as a pet.
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The video shows US Marines learning jungle survival skills in the Thai Navy drinking cobra blood as part of the training syllabus. The ladies, having won the right to go into combat with the men, aren't exempted.
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Already decimated by illegal palm oil corporations, a proposed new spatial plan by the Aceh government would reduce total forest cover by about a quarter. The plan says conservation groups, could force 'charismatic species' into extinction.
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As the asteroid 2012 DA14 is probably not going to be visible with the naked eye, it may be a good idea to pour yourself a wine or a beer and log in to NASA Television on Friday (Feb 15) to watch real-time animation of the event.
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Jakarta -
Two employees at Komodo National Park in Indonesia are in the hospital after being attacked by a Komodo dragon that found its way into a park office.
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Bali -
Last week, Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death in Bali for cocaine smuggling; today her accomplice received a considerably more lenient sentence.
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Last month, Lindsay Sandiford was convicted by a Bali court of smuggling nearly 5kg of cocaine into the country. Today, the surprise sentence was announced.
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