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A displaced orangutan walking on a road that is part of fresh clearing for palm oil plantation in Sampit district in Central Kalimantan in Borneo island. More than 1,000 captive orangutans set for release into the wild on Borneo island are being sent into a ‘killing field’ of illegal logging and poaching, Baktiantoro said. Indonesia has reserved 86,450 hectares of forest in Muara Wahau, East Kalimantan province, for the rehabilitation of 1,200 captive big apes over the next four years but warned that the endangered mammals were being sent to their deaths unless the government also managed to stop illegal logging and poaching, which is rampant in the region. Photograph: Hardi Baktiantoro/Centre For Orangutan Protection/AFP/Getty Images
Louise Bleakly snapped this obese orang-utan as it lazed by a tree after over-indulging. The sedentary creature soaked up the midday sun at Taman Safari Park near Jakarta, Indonesia. Picture: Louise Bleakly/solentnews.co.uk
Someone’s been eating too many banana muffins.
Silvestre, an 11-month-old Sumatran orang-utan, travels by ferry from Spain to his new home in the creche at Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre near Wareham in Dorset. He was brought to the UK from Santillana Zoo in Spain after his mother abandoned him at birth in captivity there. Orang-utans have the longest childhood of the great apes with infants staying with their mothers for up to seven years. It is hoped that Sylvestre will learn from his companions Dinda and Lingga at the British ape sanctuary.
monkey world = best place ever
