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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.