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What official reports say about Kalimantan’s forest fires, Sempurna the orangutan, smoke and wildlife rescue—and how to help through informed giving or sharing.
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· Kalimantan, Indonesia
What official reports say about Kalimantan’s forest fires, Sempurna the orangutan, smoke and wildlife rescue—and how to help through informed giving or sharing.
Read the story· VIETNAM
Authorities in southern Vietnam dismantled an alleged cat-theft ring in June 2026, recovering more than 400 live cats and dozens preserved on ice. Nine people were arrested after raids in Tay Ninh Province and Ho Chi Minh City.
Read the story· EAST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA
Three Bornean orangutans — Bagus, Eboni and Ruby — were released into a protected forest in East Kutai, East Kalimantan, on 23 June 2026, after years of rehabilitation following rescue from the illegal pet trade. All three are Critically Endangered Pongo pygmaeus.
Read the story· OCEANS & COASTS
Sea turtles have survived for more than 100 million years, yet within a few human generations most species have been pushed toward extinction. Here is what is driving the decline — bycatch, plastic, poaching and lost nesting beaches — and what actually helps.
Read the story· GLOBAL
A symbolic animal adoption is one of the most meaningful gifts you can give — a present that funds real frontline conservation instead of adding to the clutter. Here is how symbolic adoptions work, what the recipient gets, and how to choose one.
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Deforestation kills animals in slow motion. When forests are cleared for agriculture, logging or urban development, the effects on wildlife are immediate, cascading and often irreversible — and they are the direct cause of most of the animal rescue crises WARN responds to across Asia, Africa and South America.
Read the story· INDONESIA · MALAYSIA
Orangutans are endangered because of a single dominant cause: deforestation. All three remaining species have been reduced to small, fragmented populations in what remains of Borneo's and Sumatra's lowland and peat-swamp forests — and the crisis is getting worse, not better.
Read the story· INDONESIA · MALAYSIA
Borneo is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth and one of the most rapidly deforested. More than half of the island's lowland forest has been lost in 40 years — a scale of destruction that has produced a permanent wildlife rescue crisis in Indonesia and Malaysia, two of WARN's partner-network countries.
Read the story· GLOBAL
Habitat loss — the destruction, degradation or fragmentation of the natural environments animals depend on — is the single largest driver of wildlife decline and extinction globally. It is the root cause behind most of the rescue crises WARN's programmes are designed to address across Asia, Africa and South America.
Read the story· GLOBAL
Reforestation — the deliberate replanting of trees in degraded or cleared land — is one of the most effective interventions available for wildlife recovery. When done with the right species, in the right places, with long-term management, it can restore habitat corridors, recover biodiversity and give rescued animals somewhere safe to return to.
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The Amur leopard is the world's rarest big cat, with fewer than 130 estimated to remain in the wild. It lives in the Russian Far East and northeast China — outside the countries WARN operates in — but its story is a global benchmark for what is possible when rescue, anti-poaching and protected-area work come together.
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The giant panda is one of the world's most recognisable endangered animals — and one of its quiet conservation success stories. It lives only in China, outside the countries WARN operates in, but its journey from Endangered to Vulnerable is the clearest evidence we have that the right work, sustained for decades, can save a species.
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Follow reporting on illegal wildlife trade, enforcement and the welfare of confiscated animals. Our explainers distinguish evidence about particular seizures or species from estimates about a much wider trade. They also explore what professional rehabilitation requires after an animal is removed from trafficking.
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Understand the Karachi street dog appealRead sourced reporting on Kalimantan, alongside guides to the orangutans and other animals affected by habitat pressures. The briefing separates reported events from WARN’s own role and explains why emergency response, rehabilitation and long-term habitat protection are different parts of the work.
Read the Kalimantan fire briefingLook beyond an urgent headline to understand the intended support, who would deliver it and what records should follow. WARN’s funding information explains recipient assessment and distinguishes a proposed activity from an approved grant, a payment or a measured result.
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