Exciting news on the extinction front emerged last week from Indonesia: An orangutan used a rope bridge strung high between ...

North Sumatra, Indonesia — In 2017, the Tapanuli orangutan was identified as a new species of great ape — and immediately became the most endangered great ape on the planet, with a total population of ...

Baby orangutans wear diapers, sleep in cots and are looked after by uniformed nurses at Orangutan Island in northern Malaysia. The center claims to be fighting to preserve the endangered primates but ...