EMERGENCY ORANGUTAN RESCUE

STRANDED ORANGUTAN RESCUE

Orangutan Rescue Gone Wrong

Start your Monday with our little #OrangutanJungleSchool students as they learn how to forage for food. Given that #orangutans spend most of their day foraging, it’s no surprise that skills related to eating are popular subjects, with Fruit Eating being a favourite. Depending on season and location, orangutans can feed on hundreds of different species of wild fruits. Therefore, they must identify which ones are safe and how to eat them. Eating whole, wild figs and guava fruits is pretty straight

Today is World Orangutan Day, a day to appreciate the “men of the forest,“ the remarkable primates who defy gravity, spending their lives in the treetops. Orangutans are found only in the rain forests of the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the latter inscribed on the UNESCO #WorldHeritage List since 2004. Yet, today, their existence teeters on the brink of critical endangerment. It’s a race against time to secure a sanctuary for these incredible creatures. #WorldOrangutanDay #UNES