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 ...

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

“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 ...

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

The name orangutan, translated in Malay, means “person of the forest.” Unfortunately, that forest has been shrinking rapidly, putting the great ape critically close to extinction. Orangutans ...

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 ...

Yet Hadisiswoyo and his group do make progress. Since 2001, they’ve returned more than 2,500 acres of forest to habitat land. And that orangutan from the rickshaw? The police questioned the ...

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 ...

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

Produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, Ozi, Voice of the Forest follows the adventures of a young orangutan separated from her family ...