From rare wildlife encounters to never-before-seen landscapes, BBC Earth’s 'ASIA' showcases the continent’s wonders - and why they must be protected.

Sexually, they are polygynous, the males mate with numerous females, and try to keep other males out of their territory. A beautiful courtship display is the red dewlap on males, a structure under ...

This heartbreaking battle between an orangutan and the menacing digger was featured in an episode of BBC’s docuseries Climate Change: The Facts narrated by renowned naturalist Sir David ...

Police raided the home of a Chinese woman in Phuket after a neighbour spotted an orangutan inside the property last week. However, no monkey was found during the search. The Phuket Info Centre news ...

A new report showed that critically endangered orangutans are losing their Indonesian habitat to palm oil plantations, according to Mongabay. The U.S.-based Rainforest Action Network (RAN) used ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian businessman Hashim Djojohadikusumo planned to establish an orangutan sanctuary on Kelawasan Island, located in the Bay of Balikpapan, East Kalimantan. This island lies ...

“I think we’re trending in the right direction.” The bats’ mating season takes place from April 15 to Aug. 15. This period may yield significant growth in the bat population, Flies said.

Described as the ‘quiet one’, Cherie was born at Blackpool Zoo on April 9, 1977, where she has spent her life aside from a 17 month stay at Chester Zoo while a new orangutan house was built in ...

A study led by researchers at Penn State provides insight into how even sublethal doses of insecticides can negatively affect pollinators by disrupting the mating process. The study, published in ...

After more than two decades of work, researchers have achieved a genetics milestone: they have successfully sequenced the complete genomes of six ape species, a feat that seemed impossible just a ...