A palm oil company is ramping up its destruction of forests that are home to critically endangered orangutans in a UNESCO ...

Orangutan conservationist Birutė Galdikas dies at 79 in the US; Indonesia plans to repatriate her remains for burial in ...

JAKARTA: A 38-year-old female Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) named Pesek gave birth to her seventh child in Mount Leuser National Park (TNGL) in North Sumatra on Tuesday (March 24), marking a major ...

Biruté Mary Galdikas, a Canadian scientist who dedicated her life to the study and conservation of orangutans, has died. She ...

Biruté Galdikas, who has died aged 79, was the world’s leading authority on orangutans and the least well-known of the ...

Biruté Galdikas, 80 years old, an animal scientist and anthropologist who revealed the veiled ecology of orangutans through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Local ranger Amran Siagian, 39, looks for orangutans in an area that he says is a remnant of illegal logging activity, in the ...

Indonesia's deadly flooding was an "extinction-level disturbance" for the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, causing catastrophic damage to its habitat and survival prospects, ...

Indonesia needs a new approach to illegal wildlife trafficking that does more than intercept and repatriate animals to their home habitats, a new op-ed suggests. Seizures of trafficked orangutans have ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian zookeepers have moved an orangutan out of visitors' sight so she'll no longer smoke lit cigarettes people regularly throw into her cage. Taru Jurug Zoo spokesman ...

38-year-old female Sumatran orangutan ( Pongo abelii) named Pesek gave birth to her seventh child in Mount Leuser National Park (TNGL) in North Sumatra on Tuesday, marking a major milestone for ...

Indonesia’s deadly flooding was an “extinction-level disturbance” for the world’s rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, causing catastrophic damage to its habitat and survival prospects, ...