Author: David Gilbert – Environmental Anthropologist, Stanford University

  • Sumatran Orangutan Relocated as Forest Clearing Continues

    An imperiled orangutan was rescued from a small patch of the Tripa peat swamp rainforest in Sumatra last month, in an effort to save this large adult male from starvation. But experts fear he could be among the last of his kind in what was once prime habitat for these graceful, shy great apes.