In the lush rainforests of Southeast Asia, a remarkable creature swings through the treetops, capturing our hearts with its intelligence, charisma and distinct red-orange fur — the orangutan. But ...

Carbon-rich peatlands continue to be cleared and drained in an Indonesian protected wildlife reserve known as the “orangutan capital of the world,” with 26 kilometers (16 miles) of new canals dug so ...

Chester Zoo They’re striking in color and in genetics too, since the orangutan is one of our closest relatives in the animal ...

JAKARTA — A palm oil company is gearing up to expand into critical orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, raising alarms over the survival of the critically endangered great apes. PT Equator Sumber ...

A December 2025 study reveals flash floods in North Sumatra likely killed up to 10.5% of the Tapanuli orangutan population.

as part of a scheme to protect the endangered apes. However in a key revision of an earlier plan in May, the orangutans will not be allowed to leave the country. Plantations and Commodities Minister ...

(NEW YORK) — The mass-clearing of trees will be the doom of many forms of life on this planet. Forests are critical to the Earth’s ecology. They capture and store carbon out of the atmosphere. They ...