All three species of orangutan - the Sumatran, the Bornean, and the Tapanuli-are critically endangered. They face the threats ...

This is the first birth of the critically endangered Sumatran orangutan at the Philadelphia Zoo in 15 years, the zoo said.

Now there are less than 70,000. One of the three orangutan species, the Sumatran orangutan, is down to about 14,000. Schroeder spent half a year with a couple of organizations trying to save the ...

The species has been named the Tapanuli orangutan - a third species in addition to the Bornean and Sumatran. It is the first new great ape to be described for almost a century. Publishing their ...

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve chosen the most difficult thing in the world to study,” Cheryl Knott tells me as we sit beneath the rain forest canopy at her orangutan research station in ...

Sumatran orangutans are frugivores, or animals that feed on fruit. They are responsible for spreading seeds over their native area, and losing them means many tree species could also disappear ...

Dr Ian Singleton, director of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme ... breeding populations in the hope of safeguarding the species. To date more than 350 have been released into the ...

Sumatran orangutans are not the only species affected. Both the Sumatran tiger and rhinoceros and the Asian elephant are also being pushed to the brink of extinction due to severe habitat destruction ...

Dr Nigel Hicks and Sara Fell Hicks, founders of the Orangutan Veterinary Aid (OVAID) charity, travelled to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) Centre outside Medan, Sumatra.

SIBOLANGIT, Indonesia and WAUCHULA, Fla., Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 27, 2024, at 1:00 AM, the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) Quarantine and Rehabilitation Center ...