... , Calif (Reuters) - Ginger, the oldest known Sumatran orangutan in the United States, was euthanized on Tuesday at the Sacramento Zoo to prevent further suffering from various ...
(AP)—A conservationist group says a Sumatran orangutan has been rescued from an isolated area of forest in western Indonesia.
A baby Sumatran orangutan swings playfully on a branch at an Indonesian rescue centre, a far cry from the terror he endured when his pristine rainforest home was razed to the ground.
... . The experts' revised estimates put the number of Sumatran orangutans (P. abelii) around 6 ... part of Borneo during that period. "It is clear that the Sumatran orangutan is in rapid decline and unless extraordinary ...
Lack of law enforcement against illegal trade in Indonesia threatens the survival of orangutans and gibbons on Sumatra, a new study by the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC shows.
... companies is to include large portions of the only areas that Sumatran orangutans have ever successfully been re-introduced into the wild, conservation groups active in Jambi province ...
... imminent threat from the pulp and paper industry, jeopardizing the only successful project that releases rescued Sumatran orangutans back to the wild ...
... other than those in Sumatra and Borneo. The decline of the Sumatran and Borneo populations of orangutans is caused by varied threats, such as illegal ... ago, which is more recent than previously believed. In addition, Sumatran orangutans have greater genetic diversity than their Bornean ...
... on peatland, high both in carbon stock and orangutan population density, is threatened by conversion to oil ... +livelihoods%2C+ecosystem+services+and+the+habitat+of+the+Sumatran+orangutan&pub_year=&search=Search). Although ...
... Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) has just announced ... will be willing to report crimes against orangutans." According to Panut, Chairman of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Forum (FOKUS ...
... from other members of the Hominidae (humans, gorillas, and chimpanzees). The Sumatran orangutan also has a copy of this Alu in chromosome 13 ... insertions are able to pinpoint the divergence of Sumatran and Bornean orangutans. The ancestral Alu has been much less ...
A Sumatran orangutan believed to be the oldest reproductive specimen in captivity celebrated his 50th birthday Tuesday at a zoo in western France.
A formerly blind Sumatran orangutan can see her baby twins for the first time after undergoing cataract surgery in the first such operation in Indonesia.
A Sumatran orangutan believed to be the oldest reproductive specimen in captivity has died at a zoo in western France, a few weeks after celebrating his 50th birthday.
... in the species' conservation. One of two species of orangutans, the Sumatran orangutan is classified as "critically endangered" by the IUCN ... that these corridors remain forested to facilitate these migrations. Sumatran orangutans are the most arboreal of the great apes, spending ...
