It’s a boy! And a beautiful one at that. An orangutan baby boy, that is. A 12-year-old female orangutan called Tingsaan has given birth to a baby boy at the Matang Wildlife Centre in Kuching. The birth has delighted animal lovers and officials alike. Baby orangutans are among the most endearing creatures, but the primates are slow-breeding animals,…

Some reports are like daggers to the heart. A case in point is a new report that notes that the illegal trade in great apes, including Borneo’s orangutans, has been much worse than previously assumed. According to the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP), an alliance of more than a hundred…

Four men were recently arrested – and the two juvenile Orangutans they were trying to sell were saved – thanks to a social media program the Malaysian Government is using to ambush wildlife traders. Code-named Ops Taring III, the social media crackdown is showing promise. In March, seven other wildlife traffickers were caught. They…