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 Rezeki (ESR ...

Palm oil is a cheap vegetable oil that comes from ... “The problem is very complicated,” says Nayla Azmi, Communications Officer for Orangutan Information Centre, a local nonprofit.

Palm oil continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some of the world’s most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of endangered or critically endangered species including orangutans, ...

"Words cannot describe what palm oil companies have done to drive orangutans and other wildlife to near-extinction," Galdikas says. "It's simply horrific." According to the Nature Conservancy ...

Besides being associated with local customs and culture as well as local community activities, Borneo orangutans are also associated with oil palm plantations. The name orangutan is a Malay word ...

A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans ...

How about Wira, our orangutan mascot of the 16th Commonwealth Games held in Kuala Lumpur in 1998? The Malayan tiger and Bornean orangutan are two of the 306 species of wild mammals found in ...

His time in Borneo opened his eyes to the plight of orangutans, whose rainforest homes were being destroyed by logging and palm oil plantations. This realization transformed him into a committed ...

Zoo life boosts object exploration in orangutans Wild and zoo-housed orangutans explore the world differently, study finds Date: April 30, 2025 Source: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior ...