"Orangutans are a lowland species on Bornean Sumatra and that's where palm oil is grown," the report's lead author Erik Meijaard, from the IUCN, told BBC News. "The two often clash, palm oil ...

But the number of orangutans in areas of forest where palm oil is farmed have fallen in the same period. As a result, WWF is warning that the manufacturing of palm oil can have a devastating ...

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 ...

Effective orangutan conservation requires effective ... of lowland forests to plantation agriculture, particularly for palm oil production, is well documented. Palm oil is so important to ...

‘Orangutan capital of the world’ The Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve has been described ... of which Rawa Singkil is a part. And illegal palm oil from this nationally protected ecosystem ends up in the ...

Malaysia intends to present orangutans to nations that import its palm oil. The move aims to allay concerns that palm oil production is often linked to the destruction of the endangered apes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Borneo has lost almost 40% of its forest in the last 10 years to Palm oil. One of the animals most affected by this habitat loss is the orangutan. For Seven Worlds, One Planet we filmed a mother ...

Besides being associated with local customs and culture as well as local community activities, Borneo orangutans are also associated with oil palm plantations. The name orangutan is a Malay word ...

KINABATANGAN: Peaceful coexistence between wildlife and humans is crucial, especially at oil palm plantations in eastern ...