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How Deforestation is Endangering These Orangutans in Boreno | BBC Studios

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Protect endangered species, including the orangutan, at World Wildlife Fund. Learn about the ways WWF works to conserve a future where people live in harmony with nature.

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ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION : A FUTURE FOR ORANGUTANS, FORESTS & PEOPLE

OUR MISSION : Saving orangutans by protecting their tropical forest habitat, working with local communities and promoting research and education.

OUR APPROACH : Our approach goes beyond that of purely protecting orangutans. It recognizes that orangutans are essential to their habitat, which is unique in its rich biodiversity and is crucial for local communities, who are as dependent on the forest as the orangutans.

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Fire near Kelekat Village,
East Kalimantan, Indonesia.©Nanang Sujana/EIA/Kaoem Telapak

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Programmes on Borneo - Save the Orangutan

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Orangutan Rescue Rescuing displaced and orphaned orangutans Read more Save the Orangutan supports the efforts in Borneo to rescue displaced and orphaned orangutans. We support activities including rescue operations performed by BOS Foundation and the local authorities. BOS Foundation rescues orangutans kept illegally as pets, or wild orangutans in life-threatening […]

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The single greatest threat facing orangutans is habitat loss, largely driven by logging and the conversion of forests into oil palm plantations.

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It's hard to look at the lines crisscrossing an orangutan's open palm without thinking of the human equivalent. Shape-wise, though, the ape's long, narrow hand seems more comparable to a human foot-and functionally, it does a foot's job.

Orangutans, the world's largest tree-dwelling mammals, spend most of their time in the canopies of the tropical forests they call home. Trees are their sidewalks: they travel by climbing between branches or by making the branches themselves sway together, and their powerful hands do much of the grip work. Their scat disperses seeds from the hundreds of different fruits they eat-a critical process for maintaining the health of the rain forest.

But a different sort of palm is leaving less and less forest to move through on Borneo and Sumatra, the Southeast Asian islands where the world's only orangutan populations live. Forest clearing for palm oil plantations and illegal logging are driving massive deforestation. That habitat destruction is exposing wildlife to more conflict with humans. Poaching for the illegal pet trade is also threatening orangutans.

Despite those struggles, last year brought hope for these great apes. A WWF-led survey in Borneo's Sebangau National Park showed that its orangutan population of 6,000-9,000, likely the largest in the world, has remained stable. And orangutan numbers increased in Suka Jaya Makmur, a forest concession area in Borneo. WWF is working on both islands to promote sustainable farming and forestry and expand protected areas to strengthen the orangutan's grip on survival.

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Orangutans and Palm Oil: Protecting Forests to Help Great Apes | Magazine Articles | WWF

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It's hard to look at the lines crisscrossing an orangutan's open palm without thinking of the human equivalent. Shape-wise, though, the ape's long, narrow hand seems more comparable to a human foot-and functionally, it does a foot's job. Orangutans, the world's largest tree-dwelling mammals, spend most of their time in the canopies of the tropical forests they call home.

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Orangutan Conservation | Help Save The Orangutans

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Find out about Born Free’s conservation work to protect orangutans in the wild with the Orangutan Foundation

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Deforestation in Borneo. Green represents rainforest.

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Deforestation in Borneo. Green represents rainforest.