A palm oil company is rapidly clearing rainforest inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that’s home to orangutans and sun bears, ...

Humans have a tendency to exploit until we deplete. We manipulate a resource until it is drained, or until the effects of its decline are so severe that we are forced to move on to another supply. A ...

Human activities have severely impacted orangutans' survival and habitats. Michelle Desilets from the Orangutan Land Trust tells us more ...

as part of a scheme to protect the endangered apes. However in a key revision of an earlier plan in May, the orangutans will not be allowed to leave the country. Plantations and Commodities Minister ...

On a hillside on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, about 50 red-haired refugees are learning how to be orangutans once again. The country's booming palm oil industry has encroached on their habitats, ...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 (Reuters) - Malaysia plans to introduce "orangutan diplomacy" in its relations with major palm oil-importing countries, offering the animals as trading gifts in an effort to allay ...

Carbon-rich peatlands continue to be cleared and drained in an Indonesian protected wildlife reserve known as the “orangutan capital of the world,” with 26 kilometers (16 miles) of new canals dug so ...

Malaysia plans to gift orangutans to its major buyers of palm oil, a commodity long blamed for destroying habitats of the endangered apes. The world’s second-biggest palm grower is taking inspiration ...

A significant portion of orangutan habitat in Indonesia lies within corporate concessions, but industrial tree companies, like pulp and paper, don’t have strong enough safeguards and commitment to ...

In the lush rainforests of Southeast Asia, a remarkable creature swings through the treetops, capturing our hearts with its intelligence, charisma and distinct red-orange fur — the orangutan. But ...

In “Palm Oil is in Everything, and it’s Hurting More than the Orangutans” AIP student Helen Lee traces the history of palm oil and how the business of palm oil is devastating the global environment.