This assumes, of course, that there will still be orangutans left to study in the forests of Borneo and Sumatra. In the 1980s and ’90s, some conservationists predicted that orangutans would go ...

Van Schaik and colleagues studied six different wild orangutan populations on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Southeastern Asia. While the socially transmitted behaviors were often similar ...

Orangutans live wild only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. The two populations have been isolated for more than a million years and are considered separate species; the Bornean orangutans are ...

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

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 ...

Of greatest conservation concern is the orangutan, which occurs naturally on only two islands in the world, Borneo and Sumatra, and is under increasingly severe pressure, primarily from habitat loss.

Located in the northern end of Sumatra, Bukit Lawang has developed a reputation as a destination for wildlife. This small ...

Orangutans were once distributed widely across Southeast Asia, roaming as far north as southern China, and as far south as the Indonesian island of Javar. But today Asia's great ape is confined to ...

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

Orangutan habitat has been massively destroyed during the last decades in order to extend agricultural land in Sumatra and Borneo. Ten thousand orangutans lost their home and their lives during ...

The mining expansion must be stopped immediately.” A Tapanuli orangutan in the Batang Toru forest in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Matt Senior. Jardines said Agincourt had already ...