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 ...

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 in West Borneo have rescued two young orangutans whose mothers were killed when they were taken from the wild. Utu and Joy had been kept as pets by residents of Semandang Hulu ...

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 ...

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.

Both orangutans were being kept as pets before they were rescued. Before their release, Johnny, who was rescued in 2011, and Desi, who was rescued in 2012, spent four years being rehabilitated at ...

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 ...