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

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 ...

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

The Memphis Zoo announced the birth of a baby girl orangutan to mother Jahe earlier in December, with support from the zoo's ...

BKSDA of West Kalimantan notes that as many as 439 wild animals, involving 28 species including orangutans, were rescued throughout 2017. The conflict has further magnified the extinction rate of ...

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?).

EAST KALIMANTAN, Indonesia (CNN) -- The Indonesian and Malaysian orangutan populations, which are dwindling because their habitats are disappearing, also are victims of the flames and smoke from ...

An orangutan briefly escaped its enclosure at the Toronto Zoo on Thursday evening, and the zoo is now asking anyone who might have video of the caper to come forward. The zoo said a volunteer alerted ...

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 ...

Indonesian Pulpwood producer PT Mayawana Persada is continuing to clear peatlands on critical Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) habitat, despite a government order to stop clearing. An NGO coalition ...

A critically endangered Bornean orangutan has been shot dead, hacked to pieces and eaten by workers after straying onto an Indonesian palm oil plantation, police and activists said Thursday. Police ...