At a forest school in Borneo, baby orangutans learn tree-climbing skills from their human surrogate parents. The orphans spend 12 hours a day in the forest, preparing for a new life in the wild.
When you're a baby orangutan facing a long and daunting trip abroad, a bit of luxury goes a long way. Kiwi was given a first-class ticket as she sailed across the English Channel with her carers ...
Budi the baby orangutan was rescued in December after being kept in a chicken cage for months. Now, he is slowly recovering at an animal rehab center in West Borneo. Carly Marsh reports.
Baby orangutans wear diapers, sleep in cots and are looked after by uniformed nurses at Orangutan Island in northern Malaysia. The center claims to be fighting to preserve the endangered primates ...
British photographer Aaron Gekoski has documented human-wildlife conflict for more than a decade. His latest project exposes the horrors of baby orangutans captured from the wild in Malaysia and ...
Michaela Strachan and Steve Leonard present a series featuring orphaned and rescued orangutans in Borneo. Steve tries to rescue a baby orangutan being illegally held in a village. Show more ...
“People said I was crazy.” Commanding high prices as pets on the black market, baby orangutans can be captured only by killing their protective mothers. These orphans are being raised at ...
He remembers coming across Hope, a Sumatran orangutan who had been shot with 74 pellets. She was blinded, and she had a baby who was a few months old at most. The rescue team drove 12 hours to go ...
Travel to Borneo to visit the Orangutan Care Centre. At this jungle nursery, hospital and school, staff are dedicated to saving a species. They provide medical treatment and urgent care for sick ...
The current foster mother for the baby orangutans is Oshine, who was rescued from South Africa, having been smuggled from the wild and kept as a pet. Another key focus of the centre is to make ...