Interpreting the emotional lives of animals requires a subtler and more nuanced understanding of anthropomorphism

This past January, the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation welcomed a new baby orangutan at the Samboja Lestari Rehabilitation Centre. This female orangutan, named... more...

I'd spent weeks investigating one of the greatest environmental crimes you've never heard of. In the Malaysian state of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo,

A baby orangutan named Nia recently arrived at the BOS Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre. She had been kept as a pet for approximately two weeks before her surrender to authorities.

Three suspects have been arrested for selling orangutans smuggled from Indonesia by speedboat, with expected prices up to 250,000 baht.

Baby Momo was recently rescued by the BOS Foundation. She will soon be joining the nursery school where she will make friends and begin her years-long journey back to the wild... Please support the BO...

Speaking in New Mexico, President Trump's Secretary of Agriculture announced her intention to roll back a landmark 2001 conservation rule passed in the late hour of the Clinton administration.

'It’s surprisingly similar to what is recommended in humans for the length of a power nap.’

While a billionaire family tears itself apart in Malaysian courts, the system that made their fortune grinds on—Borneo's ancient rainforests are still being converted to cash at a staggering pace, and...

As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.

Orangutan Outreach has been proudly supporting the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation since our establishment in 2007. The BOS Foundation cares for more orangutans than... more...

Food company Wilmar Group said on Tuesday it had handed over 11.8 trillion rupiah ($725 million) to Indonesia's Attorney General's Office as a "security deposit" in relation to a case in court about alleged misconduct in obtaining palm oil export permits.

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Beloved Jumbo, from the Orangutan Outreach Adoption Program, has been released to freedom in the forest of Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park! Let’s take a look at Jumbo’s rehabilitation journey - fr...

Date Posted: June 11, 2025 Text by: BOS Foundation Communications Team at Samboja Lestari, East Kalimantan One evening at 7:00 PM local time, one of... more...

The BOS Foundation released 5 more orangutans from Nyaru Menteng back to forest freedom!

In the large-group Forest School, seven young orangutans actively play and learn together under the watchful care of our experienced surrogate mothers. It has been two months since these orphans moved...

In 2024, the BOS Foundation Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team observed one of the orangutans frequently visiting the camp— Inung— and her offspring, Indie. However, there was a special surprise in Au...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. A new report, “Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Pri...

We are so proud of Molika as she has begun her life free in the forest! Molika was last observed on May 1, 2025 by the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) Post-Release Monitoring team at ...

Recursion was thought to be a unique feature of human language.

Researchers have found that birds, like humans, form friendships with non-relatives over long periods of time.

Scientists have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity.

New research reveals Sumatran orangutans use recursion in vocal patterns, challenging human language uniqueness.

On May 14, 2025, the Royal Thai Police’s Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Suppression Division, with vital lead information from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement B...

Police in Thailand have arrested a man on suspicion of wildlife trafficking after he was found with two baby orangutans in a basket at a gas station in the Thai capital.

Sumatran orangutan mothers display unique, consistent parenting behaviors. Researchers find varied maternal styles across offspring.

Thai police have arrested a man suspected of smuggling two baby orangutans into the kingdom, they said Thursday, in a case linked to an international wildlife trafficking network.

BANGKOK: Thai police have arrested a man suspected of smuggling two baby orangutans into the kingdom, they said Thursday (May 15), in a case linked to an international wildlife trafficking network.

A new study of wild Sumatran orangutans by researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) has found that mothers consistently differ in their maternal behaviors toward their infan...

Inspired by a TikTok trend, a cognitive scientist developed the largest citizen science study in animal communication

Democratic lawmakers and conservationists are outraged by Republicans' push for a polluter wish list in the reconciliation package.

Moving an orangutan rehabilitation center to a new location is no easy task! Yet that is exactly what Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation has done - because it is what is best for the orangutan...

Since 2011, SOCP has been operating a release center for orangutans in the Jantho Conservation Area in northern Aceh Province (Sumatra, Indonesia). They spend their final weeks there before being rele...

‘Is it wicked to take a pleasure in spring?’ George Orwell’s postwar ode to the toad offers a message ripe for our times

A cine-collage manifesto in defense of beauty amidst political cynicism and environmental alienation. Based on the essay by George Orwell and read by Tilda Swinton. A…

JAKARTA — A palm oil company is gearing up to expand into critical orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, raising alarms over the survival of the critically endangered great apes. PT Equator Sumber R...

Earth, humanity and nature are inextricably interconnected. To restore us all back to health, we need to "rewild" the world, says environmental activist Kristine McDivitt Tompkins. Tracing her life fr...

JAKARTA — A palm oil company is gearing up to expand into critical orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, raising alarms over the survival of the critically endangered great apes. PT Equator Sumber R...

Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research. But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized.

Here’s a puzzle: how could evolution favour such a costly, frivolous and fun activity as animal play?