“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 ...

But regardless of how much deforestation the expansion plan entails, any clearing of the native forest will be devastating for the survival of the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), Riezcy ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Orangutans, ...

The goal of forest school is simple: to help the orangutans in the rehabilitation centers be just like the ones in the wild. But like most objectives in life, this is easier said than done.

Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers Darkness is fast approaching at Camp Leakey, the outpost in a Borneo forest that Biruté Mary Galdikas created almost 40 years ago to study orangutans. The scientist ...

Here’s a question for you: how do you film a large, dominant, and allegedly aggressive male orangutan in thick, murky peat swamp forest, where humans get tangled and bogged down, and visibility ...

BOSF executive director Jamartin Sihite stated that Tuesday’s release marked the 27th orangutan release carried out by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, recently welcomed its first baby orangutan in 20 years The Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, captured a critically-endangered Bornean orangutan birth on ...

KOTA KINABALU: Orangutan are thriving in Sabah’s Bukit Piton Forest Reserve, thanks to concerted efforts to conserve the great ape’s habitat between government agencies and the private sector.

Kelawasan Island in East Kalimantan has been officially designated as a protected area and will become the center for an ...