An international research team led by Prof. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and his Ph.D. student Sophie G. Habinger has reconstructed the habitat of the ancestors of orangutans in present-day Myanmar as part of the collaborative project EVEPRIMASIA between the Universities of Tübingen, Germany, and Poitiers, France. The results of the study, recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, highlight the orangutans' dependence on intact forests and the need to protect their remaining refuges and habitats.