They might live in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, but orangutans are still some of the most human-like creatures you can find in the wild. We share over 96% of the same DNA.

Here’s a question for you: how do you film a large, dominant, and allegedly aggressive male orangutan in thick, murky peat ...

Vivy, a critically endangered Bornean orangutan, has returned to the rainforest with help from The Orangutan Project and the ...

At a forest school in Borneo, baby orangutans learn tree-climbing skills from their human surrogate parents. The orphans spend 12 hours a day in the forest, preparing for a new life in the wild.

With males weighing as much as 200 pounds, orangutans are the world’s largest tree-dwelling animals. It's an exciting time for Knott and other orangutan researchers, as advances in technology ...

Making it has resulted in huge deforestation over the years as land is cleared - often by heavily polluting the area, slashing the trees or burning them. If orangutans are going to survive ...

No one is more familiar with the orangutan’s challenges than Laman, who scales massive trees and journeys to remote locations to document these majestic creatures. Knott, a Harvard-trained ...

Sebangau National Park is a very large area (568,000 ha) in the southern part of Borneo, in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan. Wide areas bordering the Sebangau National Park became ...