Rows of oil palms replace rain forest near Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Vast expanses of orangutan habitat have been lost to palm oil, used for cooking, food products, and cosmetics.

The snakes found are valued at ₹10 lakhs and above in the market. This is one of the biggest breakthroughs for the forest ...

Knowing little about Borneo, rainforests or orangutans, I figured my best chance to meet orangutan minds was on shared ground. I was lucky. Shared ground existed in the form of centers that help ...

The first-ever recorded albino orangutan has been released into the wild, nearly two years after it was first discovered by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF). Alba was rescued by the ...

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.

and explorers face when documenting them in the thick rain forest of Borneo. No one is more familiar with the orangutan’s challenges than Laman, who scales massive trees and journeys to remote ...

But today Asia's great ape is confined to just two islands, Borneo and Sumatra. A century ago, there were probably 230,000 orangutans - around four times as many as there are today. Their dense forest ...

Unfortunately, that forest has been shrinking rapidly, putting the great ape critically close to extinction. Orangutans only live in Southeast Asia, in the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo.

This is the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, where orphaned baby apes are cared for by their very own nannies. Abandoned youngsters are brought into the centre in Kalimantan, Borneo ...

There's some good news about the survival rates of orangutans in protected forests on the Malaysian island of Borneo ... the biggest ever done on any great ape in the world- shows that efforts ...

For the last decade, a team of frontline medics has been fighting to save Borneo's critically endangered ... and asks what hope remains to save the orangutan.