Latest Gunung Palung National Park Stories

Cheryl Knott's NSF-supported work helps us understand why orangutans require protection and conservationFor the last 18 years, Cheryl Knott of Boston University has been racing the clock. While she researches orangutans in the rainforests of Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo, the numbers of this magnificent ape steadily plummet.The outlook for orangutans--one of human's closest relatives--is dire because there are only a few tens of thousands of them currently left in the wild, and they...