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 ...

Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape population, now faces the prospect of losing more of its already constricted ...

Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium unveiled plans for its next big project. The zoo is getting ready to transform its orangutan habitat into the Hubbard Orangutan Forest. Zoo ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Sedgwick County Zoo welcomed the newest member to its family over the weekend. Riang, an orangutan ...

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?).

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 ...

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 ...

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