“Sometimes I feel like I’ve chosen the most difficult thing in the world to study,” Cheryl Knott tells me as we sit beneath the rain forest canopy at her orangutan research station in ...

“Red Rock Power will remain unfit to bid for new wind farm leases until its parent company, SDIC, abandons this dam project and the Tapanuli orangutan’s survival is secured.” He added that ...

For the last decade, a team of frontline medics has been fighting to save Borneo's critically endangered orangutans. Armed with cameras, International Animal Rescue has documented their struggle ...

The Orangutan Project A baby orangutan has been rescued and is “on the road to recovery” after he was kept in a “tiny cage" amid “unthinkable” conditions for six months. In an Instagram ...

Orangutans are bought online for as little as $109. When they outgrow their homes, they can be confined to cages. Image taken by Alejo Sabugo I’m a scientist and I’d like to think a good one ...

The Indianapolis Zoo welcomed a male baby orangutan to its Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center. This makes it 12 official primates that live at the zoo. The baby was born at 2:30 p.m. on ...

"IT’S A BOY! Orangutan mom Sirih gave birth to a healthy male baby this afternoon," the zoo said in a social media post. The post said the baby and mom were "doing great" and that the zoo's ...