A male wild orangutan died after being electrocuted while hanging from an electric cable in the residential area of Palangka Raya ...

Orangutans belong to the Hominidae family, also called the great apes. They are highly intelligent and share around 96.4% of ...

Inside the heart of Sungai Putri Forest in West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, the rain was pouring down. Sitting on a branch, an orangutan was startled as he found himself surrounded by the ...

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve chosen the most difficult thing in the world to study,” Cheryl Knott tells me as we sit beneath the rain forest canopy at her orangutan research station in ...

If all goes according to plan, the orangutan rescued from international wildlife trade in Kalyan last November will soon ...

These orangutans were rescued from various threats, including hunting, illegal wildlife trade, human-wildlife conflict, and ...

Along with the destruction of their forest homes, orang-utans up to the age of seven are sought after for the illegal pet trade. When infants are targeted, the traffickers usually kill their mothers ...

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I was lucky. Shared ground existed in the form of centers that help rehabilitate ex-captive orangutans to free forest life. Ex-captive orangutans, as the name suggests, lived at one time as human ...

Illegal deforestation has reportedly surged to record levels in a wildlife reserve at the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra ...

We started studying orangutans in the Sebangau forest over 20 years ago, slowly coming to know the lives of over 50 individuals by diligently following them from dawn to dusk in the dense peat ...

Researchers estimate that one-third of the wild population was killed in forest fires in Indonesian Borneo in 1997-98. Unfortunately, many orangutans live outside of protected regions, putting ...