Around half of all orangutans living on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo — nearly 150,000 in all — vanished during a recent 16-year period. The causes included logging, land clearance for ...

Nurcahyo says about 57,350 orangutans survive in Borneo, “spread into 42 pockets of wild population.” The big worry is that most orangutans in Kalimantan exist outside of protected areas.

The field sites where we study orangutans are small when compared to the island of Borneo. But over the last century, we have seen more than 75 percent decline in orangutan habitats—most lost ...

According to a report by the Leakey Foundation, Borneo has witnessed a distressing loss of over 100,000 orangutans over a 16-year period due to extensive changes in land cover and habitat destruction.

June 10 - An adult male orangutan has been released into an Indonesian national park by conservationists and the government after he was caught eating a villager's coconut plants on Borneo island.

In 1971, at age twenty-five, Galdikas left the placid world of American academia for the remote jungles of Indonesian Borneo. Living with her husband in a primitive camp, she became surrogate mother ...

Tamara Thiessen, CNN The steamy, jungle-covered tropical island of Borneo was once considered one of the remotest, wildest places on earth. A place where orangutans and headhunters lurked ...

An adult male orangutan has been released into an Indonesian national park by conservationists and the government after he was caught eating a villager's coconut plants on Borneo island.