Galdikas says, greeting a large orangutan with soulful brown eyes ... says it is "committed to ensuring the conservation of rare, threatened and endangered species." The companies point out ...

Of greatest conservation concern is the orangutan, which occurs naturally on only two islands in the world, Borneo and Sumatra, and is under increasingly severe pressure, primarily from habitat loss.

I spent time in the field with Marc Ancrenaz, who since 1996 has directed an orangutan research and conservation project on the Kinabatangan River, in the Sabah region of northeastern Borneo.

Siamangs are the largest of the 20 gibbon species, and belong to their own genus, Symphalangus. Distributed across Sumatra, ...

“If the Malaysian government is truly committed to biodiversity conservation, it should implement policies against deforestation instead,” Heng told CNN. Orangutans are the largest tree ...

AZE sites, in turn, are a subset of KBAs that require the most urgent need of conservation to prevent the imminent extinction of the site’s key species, in this case the Tapanuli orangutan.

and the Central Bornean orangutan is the most common. WWF helped secure a historic declaration that commits the governments of the three countries sharing Borneo – Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia – to ...

travelled to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) Centre outside Medan, Sumatra. They said a landslide destroyed the clinic, its medical supplies and many of the enclosures - and ...

The Indianapolis Zoo has announced the name of its baby orangutan — meet Edi, which means "handsome one." Edi was born to ...

In his speech earlier, Mad Zaidi said that MPOGCF also called on all Malaysians to support the orang utan conservation efforts by prioritising sustainable palm products, which are recognised by ...