The Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) is appealing the public to donate to the controversial state-owned Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre. However, it will not show transparency about the future six Sepilok... READ MORE

Friends of the Orangutans (FOTO) had previously called on Datuk Zurinah Pawanteh, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (KeTSA) to cancel the impending transfer of three orangutans... READ MORE

Published 10 November 2020. Main image: Wasabi (L) and Katarina with their newborn infants Estimated reading time: 3 minutes In December 2019, Katarina, a 16-year-old orangutan, gave birth at the... READ MORE

Published 4 November 2020 Coco, the chimpanzee, was born at Singapore Zoo and has been kept alone in a small enclosure at Melaka Zoo for almost ten years. We asked... READ MORE

Published 3 November 2020. Updated 27 November. Main image: Mardia the orangutan at Melaka Zoo Melaka Zoo has one orangutan and wants more. However, the zoo shouldn’t get any. CLICK... READ MORE

Published 30 October 2020 In May this year, Friends of the Orangutans (FOTO) exposed a dark side to Zoo Negara. Unbeknownst to the Malaysian public, the zoo had been keeping... READ MORE

Friends of the Orangutans have been informed of an alleged case of euthanasia of an orangutan at the popular Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre (SORC), in the East Malaysian state of... READ MORE

Published 23 October 2020 In December 2019 and February this year, two orangutans were born at Taiping Zoo & Night Safari, Malaysia. We contacted the zoo in September to ask... READ MORE