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Must see orangutan rescue video

Orangutans are critically endangered in the wild because of rapid deforestation and the expansion of palm oil plantations into their rainforest home. If nothing is done to protect these amazing creatures, they will be extinct in just a few years. Orangutan

VIDEO: Smithsonian National Zoo Joins Apps for Apes

Orangutan Outreach is proud to welcome the Smithsonian National Zoo (http://nationalzoo.si.edu/SCBI/AnimalCare/News/Apps4Apes.cfm) in Washington DC to Apps for Apes (http://redapes.org/a4a), our iPad enrichment program.  Check out this awesome video

Meet Orangutan Baby Rickina!

Meet Rickina. She's being cared for at the Ketapang Orangutan Rescue Center, which is managed by International Animal Rescue (IAR). Rickina was rescued in West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) , from a man who claimed that he had encountered a mother orangutan

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Every Animal on this earth deserves the right to be protected!!!!!!
Humans are destroying everything, they are their own worst enemy!

Stacey Gonzalez Ann

I totally agree with your statement 100%.NOW is the TIME for everybody to come together as ONE and help the animals out from the destruction of their HOMES & LIVES,by the HUMANS..

Because i care :)

These poor animals must be so confused,their homes being taken away for no reason,yet they are so innocent and gentle to man.
Thats why it is so easy to kill them,as the native people do,when being paid to clear the forests....just to produce palm oil.
It's not just the Orangutangs that suffer,but ALL the other animals and insects,who die in this needless destruction,it's happening on every continent......when are the right people going to be in charge,we must prevent our planet becoming a wasteland,just for profit!!!

I grew up in Phoenix Arizona and I saw when I was younger the little cages that animals were kept in at The Phoenix Zoo. The zoo has been open for 50 years now and they have made vast improvements to the enclosures that they have now. I remember the orangutan enclosure and how small it was and it made me sad. It is a beautiful enclosure now. Although I always thought how are the wild ones doing in our unsafe, money greedy world? I try to do my part to ensure that my niece will have a...

I grew up in Phoenix Arizona and I saw when I was younger the little cages that animals were kept in at The Phoenix Zoo. The zoo has been open for 50 years now and they have made vast improvements to the enclosures that they have now. I remember the orangutan enclosure and how small it was and it made me sad. It is a beautiful enclosure now. Although I always thought how are the wild ones doing in our unsafe, money greedy world? I try to do my part to ensure that my niece will have a better plant to live on but we only have one planet. We as a whole need to take better care of it and the animals that share it with us.

last year i volunteered for 2 months at sepilok orangutan rehabilitation centre in sabah borneo, i fell in love with these beautiful apes they are so intelligent with huge deep eyes that tell a multitude of emotions and feelings. that feeling of looking into those eyes stays with you forever. i am desperatly trying to get back out there to give them more help. i am interested in every charity helping the precious man of the forest.

Linda Harboruk

What a beautiful experience

We create this hell for our fellow creature...we need to fix it.

as far as I know they are only found in two parts of the world and in trouble plus how can you not love the little guys?

Es muy importante, porque la preservación de la Naturaleza, en todas sus formas, es una misión fundamental de la humanidad....

I have experienced a couple of hours walking with these gentle beings in Sipoloc, Borneo. I will never forget.

Stacey Gonzalez Ann

You where very BLESSED to be able to have that AMAZING experience with the ORANGUTANS...

It is inhuman what we, humans are doing to those animals' habitat!
We are killing them by cutting all these trees and letting them to die from starvation - it is unbelievable!