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World’s newest great ape faces habitat loss, multiple threats: Will it survive? - Orangutan News Apr 2023

Posted 16 Apr 2023 in Orangutan News

  • Scientists designated the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) as a new species in 2017, and it was immediately noted as ...

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In Sumatra, increased orangutan sightings point to growing threats to the apes - Orangutan News Mar 2023

Posted 23 Mar 2023 in Orangutan News

  • Villagers in the Batang Toru forest in northern Sumatra say orangutan sightings in their farms and settlements ...

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Deforestation in Borneo threatens one in four orangutans, study says - Orangutan News Jul 2022

Posted 26 Jul 2022 in Orangutan News

  • Deforestation in Borneo will destroy the habitat of more than 26,000 orangutans, a quarter of the population of the ...

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Plantations threaten Indonesia’s orangutans, but they’re not oil palm - Environmental News Jul 2022

Posted 16 Jul 2022 in Environmental News , Orangutan News

  • A significant portion of orangutan habitat in Indonesia lies within corporate concessions, but industrial tree companies, like pulp and ...

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How many orangutans does $1 billion save? Depends how you spend it, study finds - Orangutan News Apr 2022

Posted 02 Apr 2022 in Orangutan News

- A recent study evaluating spending on orangutan conservation, calculated to amount to more than $1 billion over the past ...

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The California Deforestation-Free Procurement Act Is Reintroduced In California To Protect Our Forests & Endangered Species - Environmental News Feb 2022

Posted 15 Feb 2022 in Environmental News

Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) and bill co-sponsors, Peace 4 Animals, Friends of the Earth, and SCIL announced the reintroduction ...

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The Orangutan Caring Scholarship Aims to Close the Gender Gap for Indonesian Women and Girls in Science - OURF News Feb 2022

Posted 12 Feb 2022 in OURF News , Student Ambassadors

It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science and the Orang Utan Republik Foundation is proud to sponsor the ...

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As Indonesia retakes land from developers, conservation is an afterthought - Environmental News Feb 2022

Posted 03 Feb 2022 in Environmental News

-President Joko Widodo’s administration announced in early January that it was canceling millions of hectares worth of logging, plantation, and ...

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We are all in this car together - Youth Ambassador Forum Jan 2022

Posted 16 Jan 2022 in Youth Ambassador Forum

The Car of Conservation: How We All Need to Work Together to Help Our World, by Jack Dalton, Kid Conservationist ...

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Groups welcome decline in deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem - Environmental News Jan 2022

Posted 05 Jan 2022 in Environmental News

Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem experienced a decline in deforestation in 2021, after an increase in forest loss in 2020 linked to ...

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