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Long-tailed macaque monkeys have a reputation for knowing how to find food -- whether it be grabbing fruit from jungle trees or snatching a banana from a startled tourist. Now, researchers say they have discovered groups of the silver-haired monkeys in Indonesia that fish.

After some good efforts to appear as a responsible brand (see first video), Dove’s credibility is somehow undermined through its participation to forest destruction in Indonesia…

Orangutan Island premieres in the UK on 26th May on Animal Planet. Click on this link to help.www.savetheorangutan.co.uk

Despite insisting a week ago that they wouldn’t be bounced into taking action, Unilever boss, Patrick Cescau performed a swift about turn today and announced that his company is supporting our call for a moratorium – a complete halt – on rainforest destruction in Indonesia.

The goal of the Dove Self Esteem Fund is to change “the current, narrow definition of beauty.” As much as I agree with this goal, there is a downside. Unilever imports palm oil from Indonesia, where rainforests and tropical peatlands are destroyed.

How to preserve your forests and make money in the process.

Green news from Wall Street: Merrill Lynch will invest of $9 million to finance a project to protect 750,000 hectares of forest in Indonesia.

"They like the trees here, the fruit from the trees, so sometimes they are here," Supriatna says softly, as we trek through the natural beauty with midday light streaming through the foliage.

"This is keystone to the gibbons. You can't kill the trees" he continues emphatically, pointing out the dainty figs that are a staple part of the gibbons' diet.

Friends of the Earth produce hard evidence of human rights abuses as palm oil plantations expand in Indonesia. EU targets on bio-fuels are helping to drive these land grabs from subsistence farmers.

Rescuers use rubber boats to deliver food and medicine to the flood victims.Landslides and floods are a common occurrence during the rainy season in Indonesia, especially in heavily logged areas.

Indigenous people already struggling to cope with a warming world risk losing their homes under rich-world schemes to tackle climate change by using forests as carbon sinks, activists said on Thursday.

Climate change is about more than what comes out of your car. Read what experts have to say about the other climate change issues – deforestation, adaptation and protecting endangered species.

Yvo de Boer, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary, takes questions from the press on the expectation for climate change talks in Bali.

Dr. Harlan Watson, U.S. Senior Climate Negotiator, Special Representative, and Alternate Head of Delegation, describes U.S. efforts to establish a post-Kyoto climate regime and takes questions from the press.

Indonesia is preparing a conservation programme to protect orangutans and their habitats in Borneo and Sumatra, Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Monday at the World Climate Conference on Bali.