Orangutans are losing their homes at an alarming rate. Vast swathes of rainforest are cleared to make way for palm oil plantations. This loss of habitat forces orangutans into smaller, fragmented ...

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 ...

The “people of the forest” won’t live in the wild much longer if we keep chopping down their rainforest homes.

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

First Resources—controlled by Indonesian tycoon Ciliandra Fangiono and his family—has agreed to buy a 91% stake in Austindo ...

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

The results speak for themselves, as orangutans have moved back into these smaller patches of forest. The palm oil produced from the plantation that provided some of the land for the corridor ...

JAKARTA, March 10 (Reuters) - Indonesian prosecutors on Monday handed over more than 221,000 hectares (546,000 acres) of illegal palm oil plantations seized as part of an on-going corruption probe to ...