By Dr Hannah Trayford Early in my career, I was told I would eventually have to choose. Choose between welfare - focused on the individual animal - and conservation - focused on populations, scale, and protection. It was framed as a clean divide: caring for individual orangutans versus saving the species. Sentiment versus science. The implication was clear: welfare was the soft option, something you cared about before you understood the bigger picture. Years spent inside reha

Latest Research on Cultural Learning in Orangutans to Recognise Foods Have you had a chance to read our blog from guest author Dr Elliot Howard-Spink of the Max Planck Institute whose research focusses on how apes structure ecologically-relevant skills, and how they acquire and retain skills throughout their lifetimes? His latest paper investigates how different forms of social learning influence the development of feeding repertoires in wild orangutans (from birth to approxi

With your support, Orangutan Land Trust has been able to send vital funding for the conservation activities of our trusted partner in the field, Conservation Action Network (CAN) Borneo. They have sent us this short update to share with you: “The loss of forest habitat has increasingly pushed wildlife into conflict situations across Kalimantan. In several areas, this situation has become severe, as remaining forests are heavily fragmented and no longer provide sufficient spac