Orangutans are being slaughtered in the wild just so their babies can be sold off as pets to the rich on the black market. The jungle animals — often just a few months old — are then kept in ...

Even after three decades of conservation efforts, the illegal trade of wild orangutans as pets is getting worse, with hundreds taken as pets since the 1970s, the international group that monitors ...

A local man named as Aliansah said he had found the orangutan in the palm oil plantation in 2015, and had been illegally keeping her as a pet ever since, The Independent reported. He said that she ...

While deforestation is the most pressing danger facing Indonesia’s few remaining wild orangutans, a new report from wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic suggests that the pet trade is ...

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 ...

Conservationists are calling for a district chief in Indonesia to face charges after he was found to have kept a baby Tapanuli orangutan as a pet and later released it into the wild unsupervised.

Orphaned orangutans attend classes where they learn to crack open coconuts, avoid predators, climb trees and much more Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

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 ...