Map of deforestation and orangutan habitat in the palm oil concession of PT Equator ... A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo.

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 ...

Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. ... A map of the study area in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Courtesy of Emily Massingham, from Conservation Science and Practice.

Borneo has lost more than 100,000 orangutans in the last 16 years ... Click here for a map from the CIFOR where you can see how the landscape has changed.

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 ...

New conservation research has discovered that up to 74% of current orangutan habitat in Borneo could become unsuitable for this endangered species due to 21st century climate or land-cover changes.

A researcher who's spent 40 years studying and living with Borneo's orangutans fears their days are numbered, as palm oil farms take the place of what were plush forests.

Hundreds of the big apes are hunted annually for meat or to eliminate threats to crops in the country's Kalimantan region (map) on the island of Borneo, according to a survey of 7,000 local villagers.

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 ...

Map of deforestation and orangutan habitat in the palm oil concession of PT Equator ... hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay ...