Monkey World has become a renowned rehabilitation centre for baby orangutans to be cared for by their own kind. View on ...

Commanding high prices as pets on the black market, baby orangutans can be captured only by killing their protective mothers. These orphans are being raised at International Animal Rescue.

Pet orangutans need to undergo rehabilitation to restore their natural behaviors and break their dependency on humans.

rescuers transported the suffering primate back to the Orangutan Project's Bornean Orangutan Rescue Alliance (BORA) rescue center, where it was medically treated. However, it was there that they ...

Kiwi is the second baby orangutan to join the creche at the Dorset ape rescue centre for orphaned and rejected youngsters in recent weeks. Monkey World Kiwi spent the crossing with her carer from ...

He remembers coming across Hope, a Sumatran orangutan who had been shot with 74 pellets. She was blinded, and she had a baby who was a few months old at most. The rescue team drove 12 hours to go ...

Michaela Strachan and Steve Leonard present a series featuring orphaned and rescued orangutans in Borneo. Steve tries to rescue a baby orangutan being illegally held in a village. Show more ...

Known for being playful with her keepers and fellow orangutans, Kelly was also not a fan of early mornings and "would pull a blanket over her head or make a fort of boxes to hide behind to get ...

The vets deliver medical equipment to an orangutan veterinary clinic after it was badly damaged. Kiwi was rejected by her mother in Spain so has moved to Europe's creche for orphaned orangutans.

After flood damage to crucial facilities at an orangutan rescue centre, New Zealand is stepping up, with Auckland Zoo funding ...

Two Cornish vets have returned from Indonesia, after delivering medicines and equipment to an orangutan rescue centre wrecked in a landslide. Husband and wife team Dr Nigel Hicks and Sara Fell ...

But after being rejected by her mother, she was moved to a specialised orangutan creche in Dorset. Now living at Monkey World, a rescue centre set up in 1987, Kiwi is thriving and independent.