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 ...

These native forests are home—the only home—for the arboreal Sumatran orangutan. During the process in which land is cleared for palm oil plantations, orangutans are either displaced to lower quality ...

Nearly 150,000 critically endangered Bornean orangutans perished from 1999 to 2015, and although the main culprits were logging and hunting, palm oil was a major factor. It also exacerbates ...

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.

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, ...

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.

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 ...

In a ripple effect, this destroys the homes of animals like orangutans which live in the rainforests. Without their natural habitat they are at serious risk of extinction. Sustainable palm oil is ...

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 ...