Rare orangutan species faces extinction after devastating Indonesia floods - Local rangers say they are struggling to find ...

By Ahmad Luqman Ismail and Aidil Ichlas SIPIROK, Indonesia Dec 9 (Reuters) - Before the deadly landslides and floods hit ...

More than 900 people have died as a result of heavy rain, floods and landslides since Cyclone Senyar ravaged parts of ...

Conservationists warn that catastrophic flooding in Sumatra’s Batang Toru region may have wiped out up to 11 percent of the ...

Indonesia’s deadly flooding was an “extinction-level disturbance” for the world’s rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, ...

Scientists have said that the deadly floods in Indonesia have become an "extinction—level event" for the world's rarest great ape, the Tapanuli orangutan. According to them, the disaster caused ...

Only scientifically classified as a species in 2017, tapanulis are incredibly rare, with fewer than 800 left in the wild, ...

“The major threat is the loss of forest due to plantations and extractive industry,” he said. In total, around 119,000 ...

A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern ...

A palm oil company is rapidly clearing rainforest inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that’s home to orangutans and sun bears, ...

The huge primate looks mellow and relaxed on the operating table. A veterinary staff member of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme center conducts medical examinations on a 14-year-old male ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Forest fires and land clearing by palm oil firms could kill off within weeks about 200 orangutans in a forest in western Indonesia, an environmental group said on Wednesday. The ...