Of greatest conservation concern is the orangutan, which occurs naturally on only two islands in the world, Borneo and Sumatra, and is under increasingly ... worldwide in saving orangutans and other ...

Found only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, these cats have eluded scientists ... as the demand for exotic animal skins and body parts continues to drive illegal hunting.

Sumatra is more fertile than Borneo, where ancient ... Acting on a tip, a wildlife officer confiscates a baby orangutan kept illegally as a pet. Workers at a rescue center will attempt to teach ...

there is potential for the management of Sumatra and Borneo to be a paradigm for building balanced human-wildlife coexistence,” they write in the study. While the construction of Indonesia’s ...

Orang-utan rescue Orang-utan, which means “the human of the forest” in the Malay language, is truly a remarkable animal. With only about 55,000 found on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, its natural ...

There are an estimated 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, mostly living in small and scattered populations in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. With an estimated 300 football fields of trees ...

The Indianapolis Zoo has announced the name of its baby orangutan — meet Edi, which means "handsome one." Edi was born to ...

Mural depicting animals that were formerly found in Java (Credit: Dr Sunarto) I certainly had a different feeling when I explored the jungle of Sumatra. The presence of Sumatran tigers and ...

Halting the illegal pet trade: WWF works with TRAFFIC (the wildlife trade monitoring network ... But today Asia's great ape is confined to just two islands, Borneo and Sumatra. A century ago, there ...

Orangutans are great apes native to Asia and live in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. They have long limbs and special feet with long toes for grasping branches ...