Everyone was close to crying.” It’s not unusual, he said, for the caretakers to form an emotional connection with the apes. “I wasn’t allowed to touch (the orangutans), but all the ...

An Incredible Discovery However, it’s not all bad news. The discovery of a new orangutan population in Sarawek, Malaysian Borneo was cause for excitement among conservationists. Led by the ...

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make their nests in palm forests. But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s ...

The first-ever recorded albino orangutan has been released into the wild, nearly two years after it was first discovered by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF). Alba was rescued by the ...

The lands are home to the critically endangered Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), and any habitat loss pushes the animal closer to extinction. Mayawana Persada’s concession spans nearly ...