Rows of oil palms replace rain forest near Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Vast expanses of orangutan habitat have been lost to palm oil, used for cooking, food products, and cosmetics.

Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Together with their children ...

This story appears in the December 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Greenpeace IndonesiaWorkers from the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation release an orangutan onto a protected ...

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually ... It’s also rarely easy. The National Geographic emerging explorer spends most of his time trying to stop deforestation by palm oil and other commodity ...

From the wild ranges of Yellowstone to the canopy of a Bornean rainforest, National Geographic photographers ... Laman's work put a spotlight on the threats orangutans face from loss of habitat.