Ask animal lovers, and Lasah, a 37-year-old elephant, has endured so much abuse and neglect for years that he needs to be freed from the Langkawi Elephant Adventures Park. The pachyderm has been kept in chains most of the time and used in elephant rides in the rest. Ask management at the park, however,…

And then there were none – orangutans left at Shangri-La’s Rasa Ria Resort & Spa, that is. In a move celebrated by Malaysian conservationists as an important victory, the last two orangutans held at the luxury resort in Kota Kinabalu have now been sent to the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in…