Bagi orangutan sang "petani hutan" yang menentukan keseimbangan ekosistem satu langkah di atas jembatan itu bisa menjadi awal kelangsungan hidup seluruh spesies. Jaga habitatnya. Video Credit: IG @pemkabpakpakbharat dan @tangguhhutankhatulistiwa

Kepala Daerah Pakpak Bharat, Franc Bernhard Tumanggor, menegaskan bahwa keberhasilan ini membuktikan modernisasi tidak harus berarti kehancuran alam.

Lima jembatan kanopi kini telah berdiri di sepanjang Jalan Lagan-Pagindar, dirancang untuk menghubungkan kembali kawasan suaka Siranggas dan hutan lindung Sikulaping yang terpisah akibat pembangunan jalan.

Orangutan Sumatera menjadi yang terakhir dan paling ditunggu-tunggu untuk menggunakannya.

terancam isolasi genetik. Lima jembatan kanopi dibangun oleh TaHuKah sepanjang tahun 2024, dan kamera jebak pun mulai mencatat satu per satu tamu yang berani melintas dari tupai, kera ekor panjang, lutung hitam Sumatera, hingga owa gesit.

Jembatan tali setinggi 15 meter ini terpasang di atas Jalan Lagan-Pagindar, Kabupaten Pakpak Bharat, Sumatera Utara jalur vital yang menghubungkan komunitas terpencil ke sekolah dan layanan kesehatan, namun sekaligus membelah habitat sekitar 350 orangutan Sumatera yang kini

tim TaHuKah dan Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS).

Untuk pertama kalinya dalam sejarah konservasi, seekor orangutan Sumatera jantan muda terekam kamera jebak menggunakan jembatan kanopi buatan untuk menyeberangi jalan raya dan menjangkau kawasan hutan baru di sisi lain sebuah pencapaian yang telah ditunggu selama dua tahun oleh

Investigasi terbaru mengungkap fakta mengejutkan: minyak sawit dari kebun ilegal di dalam kawasan konservasi ini diduga ikut mengalir ke rantai pasok merek-merek global yang ada di dapur dan kamar mandi kita sehari-hari. youtube.com/shorts/kwgIh...

Kawasan ini adalah rumah bagi 1.500 ekor orangutan sumatera, atau 10% dari total populasi global spesies yang berstatus kritis ini, sekaligus habitat terakhir harimau, badak, dan gajah sumatera.

Hutan rawa gambut di Suaka Margasatwa Rawa Singkil, Aceh, kehilangan 700 hektar tutupan hutannya hanya dalam satu tahun angka deforestasi tertinggi sejak dua dekade terakhir, bahkan 12 kali lipat dibanding tahun sebelumnya.

Cyclone turned forest into orangutan graveyard www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Environmental group Walhi has officially intervened in an environmental lawsuit filed by the government against major pulpwood producer PT Toba Pulp Lestari. The lawsuit overlooks key ecological impacts, such as critical orangutan and tiger habitats. news.mongabay.com/2026/06/envi...

Explore the Kalimantan rainforest of Borneo, Indonesia, through the ears of Dr Eddie Game, an environmental scientist using bioacoustic monitoring to save this biodiverse ecosystem. www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...

"Borneo Futures researchers managed to conduct occupancy analysis, or statistical analysis to determine whether a species is present or absent in a specific location, of 30 individual species, including the Bornean orangutan." www.thejakartapost.com/culture/2026...

"For orangutans, even a road through forest can split habitat and isolate populations. For elephants, shrinking habitat often leads to crop raids, fear, retaliation, and losses on both sides." insightsindonesia.com/indonesia/ca...

Read the paper, published in Current Biology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Using climate attribution methods, the scientists also found that the rainfall intensity was increased by as much as 50% as a result of human-induced climate change, demonstrating how worsening weather extremes present a growing threat to endangered wildlife. 📸 Orangutan Information Centre.

The scientists analysed satellite evidence of landslide scars in the West Block of the Batang Toru Ecosystem, home to the largest population of the apes. They concluded that around 58 Tapanuli orangutans died due to the landslides - about 7% of the estimated remaining population in the wild.

Scientists analysed the impact of Cyclone Senyar on Indonesia's critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans. They found that the storm’s extreme rainfall in November 2025 resulted in landslides that delivered a severe demographic shock to a species already on the brink of extinction.

Climate change-fuelled landslides push rarest great ape closer to extinction About 7% of the entire population of the world’s rarest great ape are estimated to have been killed by landslides in a storm that was worsened by climate change, a new study has found 🧵

NEW: An estimated 7% of the entire population of the critically-endangered Tapanuli Orangutan were killed in a single weather event, according to research led by Borneo Futures with @frediotto.bsky.social as an author. An estimated 58 Orangutans were killed by landslides during Cyclone Senyar (1/4)

Critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan population falls after heavy rain and landslides, fuelled by climate crisis, in North Sumatra www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Indonesia braces for rising forest fire risks from dry season, weather agency says www.msn.com/en-us/weathe...

"Vast oil palm plantations and mining concessions have replaced landscapes that once absorbed rainfall and stabilised soil." thediplomat.com/2026/06/how-...

“The expansion of mining and dam construction in this vulnerable rainforest habitat has left a great ape species, one of our closest relatives, on the brink of extinction." @mightyearth.org www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

We LOVE CAN Borneo! ❤️

The Dark Side of Orangutan Tourism: Why Feeding Wild Orangutans Must Stop open.substack.com/pub/thewildl...

We'll be there! @savetheorangutan.bsky.social

Birth of orangutan in Jantho Aceh Conservation Area "This birth demonstrates how orangutans once victims of the wildlife trade can get a second chance to live and breed in the wild. Successes like this can only continue if their habitat remains protected." www.antaranews.com/berita/55938...

The study also revealed that young orangutans selectively learn about the complex, multi-step construction elements ("know-how") and the specific tree species used for nesting ("know-what”). Congratulations, Ani!

Ani's paper is a 17-year study that showed that wild Sumatran orangutans rely heavily on active social learning to master nest building by actively observing nesting behaviour in their mothers and other independent individuals.

🎉📣We're very pleased to congratulate Ani Permana (@dranipermana.bsky.social) for winning the FSEM Postdoc Prize for best Psychology output in 2025 for her paper published in Nature Communications Biology on observations social learning in orangutans. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

PLN carries out OGTC, inviting UPR students to care about the environment and orangutans "Through this OGTC (Orangutan Goes To Campus), PLN hopes that the younger generation will become more concerned about orangutan conservation and environmental sustainability." www.antaranews.com/berita/55911...

Indonesian military shuts down screenings of controversial Papua film | South China Morning Post www.scmp.com/video/asia/3...

This paper is currently in review, so keep your eyes peeled for full publication later this year! 👀 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

Whilst our review is primate focussed, our framework can likely translate across species - if you know where an animal is looking, this framework may apply!

Given our framework allows observational social learning through peering to be identified in situ, this will enhance the rigour with which observational data can be used to understand the dynamics and scopes of wild primate cultures.

We reviewed several decades of literature on peering, and devised an observation-based framework to identify if, when and what wild animals may learn from each other during peering.

Increasing studies are documenting a behaviour called peering: close range, sustained observation of social partners. Peering is often discussed in relation to observational social learning in wild primates. But how can we actually know if (and what) animals learn from each other during peering?

New preprint in review! 🤩 "Identifying social learning through peering: predictions and recommendations". 👀 Led by Elisa Bandini alongside @revathe.bsky.social, myself, and Caroline Schuppli. See 🧵 and read it here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

East Kalimantan BKSDA connects orangutan habitat in production areas "Only around twenty percent or 700 thousand hectares of ecological space are specifically designated as conservation areas." www.antaranews.com/berita/55868...

Not just orangutans. "It is time to restore the ecosystem of Seblat by revoking logging and palm oil licences." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On rainforest regeneration: Abundance and diversity regained more than 90% and composition approximately 75% similarity to old-growth forests within 30 years, but ‘full’ recovery takes several decades. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"As new settlers clear their forest habitat, the apes are coming into conflict with humans. But simply moving them to another part of the forest may not be the answer." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Up to 40% of palm oil fields, 13% of sugarcane fields, and 10% of soybean fields grown as bioenergy crops will become unsuitable for production as the climate warms—risking carbon-emitting deforestation if farmers shift to new growing areas. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/Uao950Z1bo4

Despite being critically endangered, there is still hope for #orangutans. @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social works to enable sustainable solutions that ensure safe areas of forest for their continued survival. Because orangutans belong in the wild, not in history books. 🦧 www.orangutanlandtrust.com

Bornean orangutans return to the same plant pairings in their diet far more often than chance would predict. Mixing plants for therapeutic effect, long thought a human sophistication, may be a trait shared with great apes. dailyneuron.com/bornean-oran...