Saving Baby Orangutans From Smuggling | Foreign Correspondent
A cruel trade is tearing baby orangutans from their jungle homes to be sold abroad.
We get a smuggler’s story – and meets the warriors risking their lives to save the great apes from extinction, and return them back to their jungle homes.
UPDATE: Thanks to the public response to the program, Jono from the quarantine centre in Jakarta is being moved to an orangutan sanctuary in Borneo where he will learn how to live in the wild.
Watch 730 follow Jono’s journey back to the wild: https://youtu.be/GkNZI1D1MAY
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Post Series: Borneo
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- 2.Hercules the Orangutan | Orangutan Diary | BBC
- 3.Orangutan Pre-School: Traumatised Baby Ape On Road To Recovery
- 4.Protecting the Sun Bears of Borneo | National Geographic
- 5.Mother Orangutan’s Reunited With Her Kidnapped Daughter | Orangutan Jungle Schoo
- 6.Baby Orangutan Learns To Climb After Being Shot
- 7.A Rare Look at the Secret Life of Orangutans | Short Film Showcase
- 8.Rescue Mission Part 1 | Orangutan Diary | BBC
- 9.Orangutan Rescue Mission (Part 2) | Orangutan Diary | BBC Earth
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