Palm oil production is the primary threat to orangutans, pushing these magnificent creatures towards extinction. The demand for palm oil, a versatile ingredient in numerous products, from food to ...

These native forests are home—the only home—for the arboreal Sumatran orangutan. During the process in which land is cleared for palm oil plantations, orangutans are either displaced to lower quality ...

Palm oil from trees grown on this illegally deforested ... last refuges for Sumatra’s endemic and critically endangered orangutans (Pongo abelii), tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae), rhinos ...

Nearly 150,000 critically endangered Bornean orangutans perished from 1999 to 2015, and although the main culprits were logging and hunting, palm oil was a major factor. It also exacerbates ...

Rows of oil palms replace rain forest near Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Vast expanses of orangutan habitat have been lost to palm oil, used for cooking, food products, and cosmetics.

Rubber and palm oil plantations keep sprouting up. More roads are being built. The orangutan population was thought to be over 300,000 a century ago. Now there are less than 70,000. One of the ...

Palm oil has been and continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some of the world’s most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species like the Orangutan, pygmy ...

The viral video of an orangutan in the coal mining concession highlights the shrinking of its roaming space and the loss of ...

Besides being associated with local customs and culture as well as local community activities, Borneo orangutans are also associated with oil palm plantations. The name orangutan is a Malay word ...

Orangutans can live around 35-40 years in the wild, while the oldest orangutan to live in captivity died at age 62, according ...

Indonesia’s deforestation is once again rising after several years of decline, with 2024 marking the highest rate since 2021.

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