Vast expanses of orangutan habitat have been lost to palm oil, used for cooking, food products, and cosmetics. Composite Photograph by Tim Laman There’s another factor at work as well.

The trouble is that the two great threats to orangutans and to their tropical rainforests -- predation and habitat destruction -- are outpacing these protection efforts. Another clue to the ...

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

JAKARTA — The Norwegian state pension fund has cut ties with U.K. conglomerate Jardine Matheson (Jardines) due to concerns that the group’s gold mining activity in Indonesia could damage the ...

With more than 80 percent of the orangutans’ habitat lost, and illegal logging expanding at an ever increasing pace, preservation efforts have become as important as research. Save the ...

Bornean orangutan Kyle climbs a web made of recycled fire hose in the Great Ape House’s outdoor habitat. Connor Mallon, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

They might live in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, but orangutans are still some of the most human-like creatures you can find in the wild. We share over 96% of the same DNA. “When ...

The application of state-of-the-art geographic information systems combined with field data has made it relatively easy to check where and how much orangutan habitat was lost between 2005 and 2016, as ...