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Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says
Climate change-induced weather events are pushing orangutan populations to extinction, says a study.
June 11, 2026Watch: How one orangutan braved new bridge to unite his split community
The forest where the Sumatran orangutans live has been split by a road.
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Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says
Four days of extreme rain and landslides in the Indonesian island of Sumatra have pushed the world's most endangered great apes even closer to extinction, says a study. Research suggests that 58 of l
‘Serves them right’: Kelantan rep boasts motorcycle convoy used ‘lorong tikus’ to evade police road blocks
JAKARTA, April 27 — A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time crossing a man-made canopy bridge constructed to help the endangered animals bypass a tarred road on the Indonesian island,
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Endangered orangutan crosses man-made bridge, a first for fragmented forest population
A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan has been caught on camera for the first time using a treetop rope bridge to cross a forest fragmented by a road. The Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) and lo
Watch: How one orangutan braved new bridge to unite his split community
When a road was built through the forest where the orangutans lived in Indonesia's Sumatra, it split the Sumatran orangutan community in two and lead to fears that inbreeding could cause health implic