A major global forestry certification body is under scrutiny for endorsing one of Indonesia’s largest recent deforesters, ...

Indonesia's deadly flooding was an "extinction-level disturbance" for the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, ...

By Ahmad Luqman Ismail and Aidil Ichlas SIPIROK, Indonesia Dec 9 (Reuters) - Before the deadly landslides and floods hit ...

A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern ...

I write to add to the information in Hazel Smith’s letter (Herald, Oct. 7) about the connection between palm oil and orangutans, and to suggest another way to help them in addition to avoiding palm ...

More than 900 people have died as a result of heavy rain, floods and landslides since Cyclone Senyar ravaged parts of ...

Indonesia’s deadly flooding was an “extinction-level disturbance” for the world’s rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, ...

“The major threat is the loss of forest due to plantations and extractive industry,” he said. In total, around 119,000 ...

Conservationists warn that catastrophic flooding in Sumatra’s Batang Toru region may have wiped out up to 11 percent of the ...

BANDUNG, Indonesia -- Conservationists are demanding action after an orangutan was caught on camera smoking a cigarette thrown into its habitat at an Indonesian zoo, the latest in a string of ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium unveiled plans for its next big project. The zoo is getting ready to transform its orangutan habitat into the Hubbard Orangutan Forest. Zoo ...

The Kansas City Zoo didn’t have the best track record when it came to penning-in its primates—two gorillas got out in 2012 and two chimpanzees ran away in 2014 (I assume they all were brought back?).