The U.S.-based Rainforest Action Network (RAN) used high-resolution satellite imagery to identify 6,368 acres of protected Indonesian rainforest that has been wiped out since 2015. In its place, 1,613 ...

“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 ...

Baby orangutans on the island of Sumatra are being ... This is a series about the animals of Indonesia's Leuser rainforest and the people trying to save them. Leuser is one of the most biodiverse ...

Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii ... in front of me a beautiful rich rainforest running to the horizon and to my back a cracked forest in the process of being converted to oil palm plantations.

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make their nests in palm forests. But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s ...

Indonesia's planned deforestation threatens the world's third-largest rainforest, home to endangered species like orangutans, ...

housands of orangutans in East Kutai regency, East Kalimantan, are fighting for survival as vast stretches of their lush rainforest habitat rapidly give way to mines, residential developments and ...

A vast tropical archipelago stretching across the equator, Indonesia is home to the world’s third-largest rainforest, home to ...

But regardless of how much deforestation the expansion plan entails, any clearing of the native forest will be devastating for the survival of the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), Riezcy ...

The rainforest is still being destroyed at an ... butter they’re spreading on their toast is tainted by the killing of orangutans in Southeast Asia." Scoop is free for personal use, but you ...