Orangutan Outreach has been partners with International Animal Rescue (IAR-YIARI) since 2009. Thanks to YIARI, critically endangered orangutans in West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) have a safe home at the YIARI Orangutan Center in Ketapang. There, they are cared for and rehabilitated by trained professionals until the day comes when they can be released into a safe forest or island sanctuary.

Ideally, wild orangutans remain wild– living their lives in their forest home. Unfortunately this is becoming nearly impossible as ruthless palm oil companies destroy their pristine rainforest home. When this happens, the YIARI rescue team is sometimes notified of orangutans who are trapped in patches of forest that are being destroyed. The YIARI team gathers their gear and goes out and gets them. Whenever possible, rather than bring the wild orangutans back to the center, the team takes the orangutans to a safe forest– one that the palm oil industry will not touch.

This video is of one such operation, filmed in March 2013. Lives have been saved. Others have been lost. It’s not easy. Thankfully the YIARI rescue team is there to get the job done. Please support their amazing work by making a contribution to Orangutan Outreach for YIARI.

You can make a difference in the fight to save the orangutans by adopting one of the residents of the YIARI Orangutan Center for just USD $20/month (or USD $200/year).

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