A severe weather event in Indonesia has decimated the population of a critically endangered species of orangutan. Monumental ...

A December 2025 study reveals flash floods in North Sumatra likely killed up to 10.5% of the Tapanuli orangutan population.

Christmas came early at the Memphis Zoo with the much-anticipated arrival of an orangutan baby, a girl named Ruhana ...

Three critically endangered orangutans have been successfully released into a national park in Borneo, Indonesia, after they ...

JAKARTA — Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition calling on U.K. multinational Jardine Matheson to cancel its plan to expand deeper into Indonesia’s Batang Toru Forest, the only known habitat of ...

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 ...

Orangutans learn from their family how to do everything, like build nests, use tools, and behave oneself within the social ...

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?).

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 ...

NGOs have accused PT Mayawana Persada, a company with a massive pulpwood concession in Indonesian Borneo, of extensive deforestation that threatens both Indigenous lands and orangutan habitat. In a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An orangutan briefly escaped its enclosure ...