P alm 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 ...

Clearing land for palm oil plantations has been a major driver of deforestation, the greatest threat to the survival of critically endangered orangutans. Malaysia is the world’s second-biggest ...

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.

Consequently, oil palm companies and logging firms have been able to encroach ... to mitigate the negative impacts of logging and timber plantations on habitats and orangutan populations. For example, ...

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 ...

have been identified as critical orangutan habitat. Satellite imagery from 2015 to 2023 reveals that most of the protected peatlands within CAA’s concessions have been converted into oil palm ...

He noted that some of the orangutans he encountered appeared skinny, with their fur thinning because of malnutrition. Other ...

Crude palm oil (CPO) prices have doubled since 2015 but plantation stocks have underperformed CPO ones by 69% over the same ...

All three species of orangutan are increasingly losing their wild habitat to violent deforestation. The growing palm oil industry is particularly culpable. But Sirih, 32 years old, and her baby, about ...

such as growing palm oil. Populations of orangutans are decreasing around the world. That’s what make the new addition at the Indianapolis Zoo so important. “This is especially great for our ...

A rare orangutan is named after a mascot for a group ... The great apes are proposed as gifts for palm oil importers, but conservationists voice concerns. It is the first time a creature in ...