Multiple pressures are acting simultaneously in threatening Tapanuli orangutan — from extractive industries to logging to agricultural expansion and, increasingly, climate-related disasters.
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With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Galdikas changed the face of science and opened the world’s eyes to how similar humans are to orangutans and other primates.
In Borneo’s remote villages, locals earn money by recording wildlife — reshaping conservation and redefining how communities value their forests.
Orangutans are an endangered species, with numbers falling dramatically in the past 100 years.
Humans have watched and learned from animals who treat their ills with bioactive plants. This animal wisdom has a scientific name: zoopharmacognosy.
Orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees seem to enjoy the buzz of getting dizzy.
The sheer number of Chinese-funded dams pose a substantial risk to biodiversity. And yet, environmental regulation of these projects has serious flaws.
Setting aside half of Borneo would significantly reduce their decline, say experts.
By exploring Southeast Asian etymologies, we get a glance into the centuries-old relationships between humans and forest creatures.
Calls to ban palm oil could get a very different response among people who live in the same forests as orangutans.
Boycotting palm oil would increase production of other crops, such as soy, which actually require more land.
From LGBTQI rights to racial justice, companies are embracing the social issues that matter to their consumers. And, of course, that makes sense.
Time to rethink orangutan conservation, now we know that our red relatives are actually very adaptable.
A US$1.6 billion dollar dam in Sumatra threatens the recently discovered and desperately imperilled Tapanuli Orangutan.
To save the orangutans we must both protect their forests and stop any hunting and killing within them.
A group of fewer than 800 orangutans in northern Sumatra has been recognised as a new species - and they are already under threat from deforestation.
Young orangutans are dependent on their mother’s milk for many years and that could have an impact on the survival of the critically endangered species.
Our secret? We’re better at sharing our ideas.
Realizing that others’ minds hold different thoughts, feelings and knowledge than your own was thought to be something only people could do. But evidence is accumulating that apes, too, have ‘theory of mind.’
One of paleontology’s most notorious hoaxes has long been blamed on a serial forger named Charles Dawson. But might a Jesuit priest have been in on a joke that went wrong ?
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Primate Biology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Honorary Professor of Conservation, University of Kent
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Reader in Anthropology, Brunel University of London
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Reader in Conservation Science, University of Kent
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Associate Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University
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Professor, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Wageningen University
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Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
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Australian National University
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Professor of Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Head of Communications at Borneo Futures
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Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution & Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Ecology, Griffith University
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Head of department of Conservation Biology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Professor of Organisms and Environment, Cardiff University