In some areas they are even hunted for food. The Sumatran orangutan used to live across the whole island of Sumatra. Now it is just in the island’s north, with most of them in the provinces of ...

Orangutan Island is an American documentary television series, in the style of the successful series Meerkat Manor, that blends more traditional documentary filming with dramatic narration.

But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s largest city, in a rickshaw. Hadisiswoyo runs the Orangutan Information ...

But it's not good news in all parts of the island. "While the orangutan population has stabilised in large forest areas, their numbers declined in forest patches within oil palm landscapes," WWF said.