After learning how to survive independently in the jungle, she has been allowed to return to her home in the Busang Ecosystem ...

Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition calling on U.K. multinational Jardine Matheson to cancel its plan to expand ...

The “people of the forest” won’t live in the wild much longer if we keep chopping down their rainforest homes.

The goal of forest school is simple: to help the orangutans in the rehabilitation centers be just like the ones in the wild. But like most objectives in life, this is easier said than done.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The "Into the Wild" exhibit sees some 1,000 square meters turned into a virtual rainforest, home to orangutans, Malayan tapirs and tiny mouse deer. SEE ALSO: The world’s best wildlife ...