Palm oil is a cheap vegetable oil that comes from ... “The problem is very complicated,” says Nayla Azmi, Communications Officer for Orangutan Information Centre, a local nonprofit.

Palm oil from trees grown on this illegally deforested ... last refuges for Sumatra’s endemic and critically endangered ...

Rows of oil palms replace rain forest near Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Vast expanses of orangutan habitat have been lost to palm oil, used for cooking, food products, and cosmetics.

The “people of the forest” won’t live in the wild much longer if we keep chopping down their rainforest homes.

Consequently, oil palm companies and logging firms have been able to encroach ... to mitigate the negative impacts of logging and timber plantations on habitats and orangutan populations. For example, ...

The $40 billion palm oil industry is notorious for wiping out rainforests, displacing indigenous peoples, spewing carbon into the atmosphere and driving the orangutan and other animals toward ...

A zookeeper described the 43-year-old orangutan who has lived at the zoo his whole life as an intelligent, thoughtful ...

Palm oil companies in Indonesia continue to operate on protected peatlands and clear forests, despite having their forestry permits revoked and being certified as sustainable, a new report alleges.

in biological diversity following forest conversion to oil palm plantation. Further, many animals will not move through plantations while others, like orangutans, become crop pests putting them at ...