Japan, Indonesia zoos team up to breed endangered orangutan

A zoo in western Japan aims to breed endangered orangutans by pairing a male at the zoo with a female from an Indonesian zoo under a rare wildlife conservation agreement.Hayato, a 15-year-old male Bornean orangutan at Tobe Zoological Park of Ehime Prefecture, has reached breeding age, but the zoo has struggled to find him a partner as the species is limited in Japan and listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List.A turning point came in 2018, when Taman Safari Indonesia proposed launching a joint orangutan conservation project with the pr…READ FULL ARTICLE