Cops hold a baby ape found in the luggage of a Russian at Ngurah Rai International Airport, BaliCredit: Getty - Contributor And despite the fact it is illegal to keep an orangutan as a pet in the ...

Authorities in Indonesia have confiscated two juvenile Sumatran orangutans, a critically endangered species, being kept as pets. Possession of an orangutan is punishable by up to five years in ...

Keeping an orangutan pet is illegal in Indonesia, but not once has a citizen been prosecuted for it. The owners tend to be influential figures — police officers, soldiers, politicians.

Pet Tiger Rescued from Houston Neighborhood Is 'Thriving and Happy' After One Year at Sanctuary Before BORA, the orangutan duo lived at the Wildlife Rescue Centre in Yogyakarta on the Indonesian ...

The current foster mother for the baby orangutans is Oshine, who was rescued from South Africa, having been smuggled from the wild and kept as a pet. Another key focus of the centre is to make ...

These orangutans had been displaced due to forest destruction, separation from their mothers, or kept illegally as pets. The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation manages the primate rehabilitation ...

the global authority on the status of the natural world, lists orangutans as critically endangered. Orangutans are often sold into the pet trade and for display in zoos and other attractions.