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 ...

For months, four infant orangutans lived in limbo in Thailand — not as pets, but as evidence. Confiscated in two separate trafficking cases, they were cared for at the Khao Pratubchang Wildlife Rescue ...

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, ...

If all goes according to plan, the orangutan rescued from international wildlife trade in Kalyan last November will soon return to Indonesia, its country of origin. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. It is obvious that at the moment Indonesia neither has the political commitment nor ability to safeguard its dwindling populations of orangutans.

An orangutan mother has been blinded after being shot with at least 74 air gun pellets on Indonesia's Sumatra island, where threats to the endangered species have increased as the palm oil and paper ...

A critically endangered orangutan was seen walking in a coal mine in Borneo's East Kalimantan province The sighting took place in East Kalimantan, where Indonesia is building its billion-dollar ...

Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet. Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Tori is a teenager with a bad habit. The 15-year-old orangutan has been smoking cigarettes at an Indonesian zoo for a decade, but she’s about to go cold turkey. Zookeepers ...

A baby orangutan born earlier this month clings tightly to his mother at a conservation centre on Indonesia's Sumatra island. Ade was born to 15-year-old mother Susi, who has been at the facility ...

The Tapanuli region has been devastated by floods that killed nearly 1,000 people The Tapanuli region has been devastated by floods that killed nearly 1,000 people All three species of orangutan are ...