World Orangutan Day 2025: Turning Awareness Into Action
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World Orangutan Day: Ongoing threats & habitat loss haunt these great apes
Despite years of research into their complex behavior and intelligence, orangutans remain critically endangered on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, where they’re endemic. Mongabay has extensively covered the threats they face from habitat degradation and what studies say about how human activities affect them. This World Orangutan Day, on Aug. 19, we take a look at how this intelligent great ape is faring in a world quickly changing due to hum…
Subscribe to our WhatsApp channel and bring the information in the palm of your hand. Orangutans and the struggle for their survival On August 19, the International Day of Orangutan is celebrated, a date that seeks to raise awareness about the critical conservation situation of this species. Orangutans, whose name means “forest person” in Malay and Indonesian, are the largest tree mammals in the world and play a vital role in the regeneration of…
World Orangutan Day — From Orphaned to Empowered - Sustainable Action Now (SAN)
Each year on August 19, we mark World Orangutan Day, a powerful reminder of the urgent need to protect one of our planet’s most intelligent and vulnerable species. Orangutans—known for their deep, soulful eyes, remarkable intelligence, and striking red hair—are icons of the rainforest. Yet, they are also among the most endangered great apes on Earth, with their survival increasingly threatened by deforestation, poaching, and illegal wildlife tra…
It is August 19, 2025. 231 days have passed of the year and it is 134 days until its completion. Today is Tuesday. The events refer to events, celebrations or significant commemorations...
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