“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 ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The Hubbard Orangutan Forest is now open at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium. Like little ducklings, children filed in to see the creatures double their size.

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

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 ...

Indonesia’s deforestation is once again rising after several years of decline, with 2024 marking the highest rate since 2021.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Researchers estimate that one-third of the wild population was killed in forest fires in Indonesian Borneo in 1997-98. Unfortunately, many orangutans live outside of protected regions, putting ...