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This programme contains
some scenes which
some viewers may find upsetting
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SIRENS WAIL
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INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
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GUN CLICKS
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SIREN WAILS
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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CAMERA CLICKS
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The poor orangutans have been caught
in one of the most devastating
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ecological war zones on our planet.
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The illegal pet trade is
just one of many threats.
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In the last 20 years,
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over half of Borneo's orangutans
have been lost from the wild.
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They are now on the critically
endangered list,
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and I think that
that is a huge wake-up call.
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We are in a crisis and we are
running out of time.
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Every day we're sitting here and
we're not addressing conservation
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issues, 20 orangutans will disappear
from the face of the earth.
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With expert opinion and
unprecedented access to footage
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filmed by rescue teams
on the front line...
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IN OWN LANGUAGE:
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GUN CLICKS
..this is the story of
how orangutans have been
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pushed to the brink...
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They really are staring over
the precipice into extinction.
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IN OWN LANGUAGE:
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..and the specialist medics
fighting to save them.
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Come on, come on, come on...
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BIRDSONG
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Orangutans are incredibly
closely related to us,
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and because of that,
they're very similar.
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And you can see that in the way
they behave and the way they act,
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their genetics,
everything about them.
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You can't really look an orangutan
in the eye and not see
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some quite deep emotional
connection with them.
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It's a being -
it's someone staring back at you.
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I've been lucky enough to see
an orangutan in the wild,
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and it just overwhelmed me...
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..and the more you know about them,
the more wonderful it is.
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They have an incredibly complex
relationship with the forest,
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and they can identify several
hundred species of plant that
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they're able to use not only for
food, but also medicinally.
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They remind you of your friends,
your family...
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They're incredibly intelligent.
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They are one of the most remarkable
creatures on the planet.
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Orangutans are only found on
two islands in Southeast Asia -
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Sumatra and Borneo.
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Borneo mostly falls within
the borders of Indonesia,
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and 85% of orangutans
live on this one island
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but, over the last six decades,
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their numbers have been
declining rapidly,
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and in 2016
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they were declared
critically endangered.
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For a million years,
orangutans thrived,
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and then, in the blink of an eye,
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the orangutans are being wiped off
the face of the earth.
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THUNDER RUMBLES
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HEART MONITOR BEEPS
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The fight to save them has never
been more important.
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I think what really changed me
as a person is the first experience
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that I had in Indonesia.
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It was also the first time that I
really saw what was happening to
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the orangutans, and the very
critical situation
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they were going through.
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It really impacted me as a person,
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as a professional, as a vet,
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and really made me think that I had
to do something about it.
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In 2008, Dr Karmele Llano Sanchez
was working as a vet in Borneo
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when she was called to treat
an orangutan called JoJo,
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being illegally kept as a pet.
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JoJo was chained up
from his ankle...
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..and below him there was sewage,
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and it was all this dirty water.
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He was also about 12 years old,
and had spent his whole life there.
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And I remember, to look at JoJo,
it's not sadness -
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it's desperation.
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I had to give some medication.
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I opened the chain...
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..but I had to put back the chain
on the other ankle,
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and I had to leave...
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..and I left JoJo there,
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because there was no place to
take him.
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It impacted me so much,
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and this was our main motivation
to build this centre.
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JOJO GRUNTS
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One year after meeting JoJo,
Karmele returned to rescue him,
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housing him in
a temporary enclosure,
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away from the horror
of his previous life.
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His bones hadn't grown properly.
He had rickets.
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It's a disease when you don't have
proper nutrition,
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so he's handicapped.
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JoJo's disability meant he couldn't
survive in the wild...
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..so Karmele has been caring for him
for the last ten years.
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And now you would not believe that
it's the same orangutan.
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Good boy, good boy,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
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Good boy.
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It's just a cage where he lives now.
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He deserves a much better place,
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but, you know, it's far, far,
very far from
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where we rescued this orangutan.
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JoJo was the first orangutan
Karmele saved,
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but today the centre she founded
has grown.
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International Animal Rescue now
cares for over 100 orangutans.
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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Every ape has an incredible story
of survival.
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ORANGUTAN SQUEALS
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MACHINE BEEPS STEADILY
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The latest arrivals are
the pair rescued by the police
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from the illegal pet trade.
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One is a year-old male
that has been named Gakkum.
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The other, a female of eight months,
has been called Korwas.
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After their ordeal at the hands
of wildlife traffickers...
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Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
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..they face over two months
in quarantine
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before they can join the other
babies at the centre.
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In five years, the number of
orangutans cared for
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by Karmele and her team has
doubled...
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..and this is just one of six rescue
centres across Borneo.
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All are stretched to breaking point.
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I think the centre is just
a treatment for the symptoms,
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but it's not really a cure for
the root of the problem.
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When it comes to saving orangutans,
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what you've got to do is
save their home,
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and their home is the rainforest.
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TREE CREAKS
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CHAINSAW BUZZES
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The question we have to ask
ourselves is, how did we get here?
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In the 1960s, a military officer
named Suharto
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establishes this military
dictatorship,
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and he exercises his control
with ruthless violence.
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He has a vice-like grip
across Indonesia.
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So he claims all of the forests
for the state.
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ANIMALS CHIRP
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Borneo's forests are
very rich in hardwoods
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that make really good, really
durable, really strong timber.
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These species are really valuable.
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Before, people, of course, were
cutting down trees to build houses
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and so on, but it could only
happen on a limited scale
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because the technology
wasn't there.
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And if you think you're going to
try and hack your way through
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that one-metre-diameter hardwood
tree with an axe, and then tug it
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kilometres down the road, that's
a really difficult thing to do.
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In the 1960s, the logging industry
in Borneo took a turn.
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MUSIC: Gimme Shelter
by The Rolling Stones
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The chainsaws came in,
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the bulldozers came in,
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and all of a sudden you actually
had major timber barons.
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The companies went in very quickly
and they ripped out this timber.
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# My very life today... #
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The volumes of logs coming out of
Borneo surpassed the volumes
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coming out of the Amazon
and the Congo.
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For a period of time it was the
logging epicentre of the planet.
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# It's just a shot away
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# It's just a shot away... #
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Within years, this became
a multi-billion-dollar industry.
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There were people becoming
super-rich off the back of it.
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Logging had a huge impact on
the environment of Borneo.
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SAW BUZZES
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Tall hardwood trees were targeted
by the early logging industry.
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When you remove a tree species,
you change the forest dramatically -
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if you remove, for instance,
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the organisms that are utterly
dependent on that species of tree,
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you generally screw things up.
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The era of industrial logging
took a huge toll.
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Borneo's pristine forests started to
be exploited at a breathtaking rate.
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Satellite data reveals that,
in less than three decades,
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an area larger than
England was logged.
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The orangutan population
went into freefall.
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HEART MONITOR BEEPS
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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Today, degraded areas of forest are
the number-one reason rescue centres
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deploy emergency extraction teams.
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In these small fragmentary areas,
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you don't get that whole
yearly cycle of fruiting trees,
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and you don't get enough food
all the time.
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You're not getting enough water,
there's not enough habitat,
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and nine times out of ten, if
they're stuck, they're going to die.
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Using cameras to document
their work,
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this team faces a particularly
challenging rescue -
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a mother with a baby.
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They must capture both
without injuring them.
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For us to capture a wild orangutan,
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the only way is if
we sedate them first,
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so we have to use guns to
deliver the drug.
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Argitoe Ranting is the team's
most experienced marksman.
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IN OWN LANGUAGE:
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If a dart hits the wrong part of
an orangutan's body,
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it can cause internal damage.
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You have to be really careful not to
hit the baby orangutan by mistake.
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SCREECHING
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GUN CLICKS
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OK.
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The dart has hit its mark.
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When the female falls asleep,
she should drop into the net...
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..but she's become wedged
in the branches.
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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They must get them down quickly
before the drugs wear off.
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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TREE CREAKS
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Babies are carried on their mothers
for the first two years.
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Wide awake, this one clings on
instinctively.
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We found them in a really
horrible condition,
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with severe malnutrition.
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IN OWN LANGUAGE:
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It's amazing that an orangutan
can make it through
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that level of malnutrition.
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HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
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If you are late for a few days,
it might be too late.
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THUNDER RUMBLES,
RAIN TRICKLES
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Despite the stressful ordeal,
this mother and baby can now be
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relocated to a protected area
of forest,
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where she can raise her youngster
in the wild...
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..but they are the lucky ones.
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HEART MONITOR BEEPS
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95% of the orangutans that arrive
at International Animal Rescue
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are orphaned babies.
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The team's goal is to rehabilitate
and release them back into the wild
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but, without a mother to teach them
basic life skills,
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it's up to the centre's 50 keepers
to show them the ropes.
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IN OWN LANGUAGE:
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THEY SQUEAK
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One of my favourite things
about baby orangutans
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is this look on their face.
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There's this sense of,
"How am I here?"
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Orangutans share 97% of
their DNA with us,
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and research shows great apes
can be as intelligent
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as a three-year-old child.
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SQUEAKING
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We're so closely related,
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we can pass them our human germs
and diseases,
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so the keepers wear masks to protect
these vulnerable babies.
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SQUEALING
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They've also got
the longest childhood
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in the whole natural world.
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In the wild, these baby orangutans
should be with Mum for seven years,
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and that bond, as it is with us,
is very, very special.
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We can't replace their mothers.
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We are not their mothers.
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We will never be.
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But, you know, we will try to do our
best to try to get these orangutans
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back into the wild.
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Forest School is really important
for baby orangutans.
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This is where they are going to
learn everything they need to know
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to survive in the wild.
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Baby orangutans learn in exactly the
same that we do when we're children.
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They will watch every move
their mum makes,
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and if they don't have a mum,
they have to watch their caregivers,
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and also their other
little playmates,
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and that's really important,
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cos they're watching the mistakes,
and they're watching the successes.
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They need to identify what's food
in the forest.
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Many of the plants are toxic,
and many aren't,
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so how do you know which one is
the right thing to eat?
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They need to learn how to climb,
and many of these little kids -
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and these are kids, remember -
can't even climb a tree.
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Something we don't think about
great apes doing is building nests,
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and it can take years to learn.
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It's not just a case of
bending some trees over -
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they're beautifully interwoven,
and it's safety for them.
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You've got to train a wild animal to
be wild again.
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We now know so much more about
the cognitive mental abilities
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of all these great apes,
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and we know that they
enjoy themselves,
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and they have a sense of humour.
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They can mourn.
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These Forest Schools are
doing everything they can,
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and they're invaluable to the
future success of these animals
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going back into the wild.
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The reality is that each of those
babies are orphans.
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THUNDER RUMBLES,
RAIN TRICKLES
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People seeing the cute
orangutans is, "Oh! Ah!"
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The reality is that it's a tragedy.
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THUNDER RUMBLES
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ENGINE ROARS
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The story of the decline of
orangutans is basically the story of
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human domination over nature.
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The orangutans' forest home not only
provides them with food and shelter,
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it also acts as a buffer protecting
them from human activity...
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..but as logging companies stripped
the forests of timber,
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the roads they built
carved Borneo open.
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This presented opportunity for human
infiltration like never before.
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For orangutans, the impact has been
significant.
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You get much increased rates of
hunting of wildlife
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and increased rates of conflict
with wildlife,
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and animals tend to get killed
as a result.
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ORANGUTAN SQUEAKS
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Recent research shows that
up to 3,000 orangutans
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are being intentionally killed
every year in Indonesian Borneo,
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as our two worlds collide.
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HEART MONITOR BEEPS
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In 2012 a rescue team recorded
a particularly harrowing case,
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when a young male -
later named Pelangsi -
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was caught in a hunter's snare.
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When we arrived, he was still
trying to free himself,
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trying to pull the arm...
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..so we had to sedate him.
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The arm was completely necrotised.
It's like gangrene.
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IN OWN LANGUAGE:
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He had a high fever.
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The infection had already affected
the bloodstream.
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He could have died there,
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after many, many days suffering.
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The team stretchered Pelangsi
out of the forest.
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Throughout all this time,
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we had to make sure that
the heartbeat was stable.
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It was the longest hour and a half
ever in my life.
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Pelangsi was holding on
for all this time,
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but as soon as he got to
the clinic...
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HEART MONITOR BEEPS
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..he collapsed.
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And in the morning, the medical team
called me up and said,
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"Karmele, maybe you have to come,
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"because the condition of Pelangsi
is getting worse,
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"and we think that he's, uh,
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"he's getting into a shock."
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HEART MONITOR BEEPS
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Pelangsi's blood pressure was
really, really low,
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the heartbeat was low,
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and potentially he's going to
die soon.
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I said to the team, "Don't give up,"
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and we had to try our best.
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By next morning, Pelangsi had
regained consciousness,
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but he hadn't eaten for eight days.
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It was critical the vets found a way
to get this wild orangutan
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to accept food.
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VET CLICKS TONGUE
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Hey, oh, Pelangsi.
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And that was what saved his life.
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Good boy.
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His condition started to
recover very quickly.
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After a month in intensive care,
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Pelangsi had regained
his strength,
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but now he had an even bigger
hurdle to overcome -
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surgery on his horrifically
damaged arm.
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We knew that it had to
be amputated - there was no doubt.
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HEART MONITOR BEEPS,
VENTILATOR HISSES
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The heart rate is stable.
The oxygen is stable.
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It took over five hours.
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It was a really tough operation...
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TOOL BUZZES
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..but everything went
really, really well.
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With only one hand,
Pelangsi's movement was impaired...
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..but orangutans are intelligent
and adaptable animals.
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Even when he was recovering,
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we saw that he had developed
some extra skills.
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He was able to use his mouth to
replace his missing hand.
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He could also use this part of the
forearm to hold things, as well -
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food and branches.
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HE GRUNTS
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Against the odds, Pelangsi had
developed the skills he needed
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to live back in the wild.
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The decision was made to
release him.
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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IN OWN LANGUAGE:
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Bye-bye!
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He spent a few seconds to
look back to us,
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and vocalise the same as
a wild orangutan will do.
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HE SCREECHES
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That was it. He was back to being
a completely wild orangutan.
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HE GRUNTS
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If you asked the question, "How did
we get into this situation today?"
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I would say two words - palm oil.
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The exploitation of Borneo's forests
that began in the '60s
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had initially focused on
a few species of hardwood tree...
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..but in the '90s, a turn of events
would accelerate the destruction
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on a massive scale.
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Four decades of relentless
logging had exhausted
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the valuable hardwoods,
and Suharto's regime had left
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the Indonesian economy
close to collapse.
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In Indonesia, rioting continues as
the government tries to
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pull its country out
of economic ruin.
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Anger is directed at President
Suharto, whose autocratic rule
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in Indonesia has lasted 32 years.
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In 1998, Suharto is toppled
as a dictator...
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CAMERAS CLICK
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CHEERING
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..and this leads to a critical
moment for Indonesia's forests.
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There was a decentralisation of
power from the national government
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to the regional government
authorities.
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The district governments in Borneo
needed to generate revenue.
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The timber barons had depleted
large areas of rainforest.
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People don't have the patience to
sit back for 200 years and wait for
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a forest to grow back,
so people were thinking,
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"OK, what's plan B now?"
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Palm oil is one of the most
widely used products on our planet.
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If you go into a supermarket,
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it's almost hard to find something
that hasn't got palm oil in it.
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It's used in food.
It's used in cosmetics.
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It's used as a feedstock for making
all kinds of different products.
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It's actually the highest-yielding
vegetable oil that there is,
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and there was a lot of money to
be made from it.
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At first it seemed like the perfect
economic solution,
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creating jobs and opportunity.
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Critically, you also have dozens of
district leaders who have suddenly
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assumed great control to grant
licences to plantation companies
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to grow palm oil.
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They basically gave vast concessions
to clear those rainforests
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for palm oil.
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During this time, there was a rapid
increase in deforestation rates.
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If you look at what is happening
with palm oil in Borneo,
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it's like a disease.
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It is just running rampage
across the rainforest.
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Indonesia is the biggest producer
of palm oil across the globe.
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You can fly over areas which look
like a neat version of the Amazon -
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palm oil from horizon to horizon.
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THUNDER RUMBLES
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Less than 10% of companies in
Borneo produce palm oil using
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sustainable methods to
an international standard.
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In these intensively farmed
monocultures,
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most forest species can't survive.
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The only life is rows upon rows
of oil palm trees,
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planted to produce a cheap oil
so we can have cheap snack foods
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in the US, Europe and China.
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It's fine if you put a bit of palm
oil into the odd biscuit,
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but you cannot have that kind of
global demand going into
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more and more products and think
the rainforests are going to
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survive this, or that orangutans
are going to survive this.
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Since 2000
and the explosion of palm oil,
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Borneo has lost 20,000
square miles of forest.
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If the predicted rate of
deforestation holds true,
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a third of Borneo's
remaining orangutans
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will be wiped out by 2020.
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BIRD SQUAWKS
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In 2016, across Borneo,
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a football field of forest was
destroyed every 47 seconds.
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As companies clear-cut the forest,
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rescue teams stand by to help
orangutans trapped as their home is
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levelled around them.
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TREE CREAKS
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I could never imagine
until I saw it with my own eyes.
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HEART MONITOR BEEPS
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IN OWN LANGUAGE:
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GUN CLICKS
BLEEP
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In the aftermath of one clearance,
marksman Argitoe is called to
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translocate an orangutan
spotted on the ground.
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Away from the safety of the trees,
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the team's rescue footage reveals
it disorientated and vulnerable.
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GUN CLICKS
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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The team need to carry out a rapid
assessment to decide whether
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this female can be released
straightaway.
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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But as vets start
a primary survey,
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Argitoe receives a call from
a palm oil concession.
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ORANGUTAN GRUNTS
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Another orangutan is in trouble.
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The frightened female
has sought safety
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at the top of a 30m-tall tree.
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ORANGUTAN SQUEAKS
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With the orangutan out of range,
the team must bide their time.
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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BIRD CHIRPS
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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Rescues are traumatic
for orangutans...
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..but this female is
severely dehydrated
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and wouldn't have survived
in the open for much longer.
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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She has no major injuries...
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..so can be translocated along
with the female rescued earlier.
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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As they prepare to leave,
new information comes in.
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HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
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According to a local worker,
before the team arrived,
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this orangutan became separated
from its baby.
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Without its mother,
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the baby orangutan will have
no chance of surviving.
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Despite the team's best efforts,
this mother's baby was never found.
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HEART MONITOR BEEPS
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BABY ORANGUTAN SQUEAKS
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THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
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It's been two months since
the baby orangutans rescued during
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the police raid came
into the centre.
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Until now, they've been kept
isolated in the quarantine cages.
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Today, Gakkum can finally
join another new arrival
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to start the rehabilitation process.
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Today we are going to try to put
Gakkum for the first time in a tree.
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Thank you.
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Orangutans are mostly solitary
in the wild,
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but Gakkum will have to learn to
socialise with other babies
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before he can start Forest School.
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Gakkum.
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So, at the moment,
he's just clinging onto Dr Temia.
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When they have the opportunity to
climb the first time,
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not all of them are going to be
confident to do it right away...
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..so you just have to
give them time.
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Gakkum. Gakkum, Gakkum, Gakkum.
Gakkum.
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Gakkum is taking his first steps
on a long road.
486
00:44:44,900 --> 00:44:46,620
Hey, Gakkum.
487
00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:56,340
It'll take six years' training in
Forest School before he can join
488
00:44:56,340 --> 00:44:58,900
the older orangutans getting
ready to be released.
489
00:45:05,100 --> 00:45:07,100
IN OWN LANGUAGE:
490
00:45:22,700 --> 00:45:26,220
We'll release the animals
in a National Park,
491
00:45:26,220 --> 00:45:30,180
and it's a beautiful forest area
in the heart of Borneo.
492
00:45:32,540 --> 00:45:37,780
We are re-establishing
a population that once was lost.
493
00:45:40,020 --> 00:45:43,620
Releasing orangutans there is
invaluable for the survival of
494
00:45:43,620 --> 00:45:45,500
the orangutans as a species.
495
00:45:53,460 --> 00:45:55,260
Since the 1980s,
496
00:45:55,260 --> 00:45:59,460
the Indonesian government has
protected nine key areas in Borneo,
497
00:45:59,460 --> 00:46:01,500
designating them as National Parks.
498
00:46:05,580 --> 00:46:08,660
Rescue teams use these forest
sanctuaries when returning
499
00:46:08,660 --> 00:46:10,940
orangutans back to the wild.
500
00:46:18,220 --> 00:46:21,740
The rainforests of Borneo are the
oldest rainforests on the planet.
501
00:46:21,740 --> 00:46:25,220
They have been evolving
for 130 million years.
502
00:46:27,980 --> 00:46:30,820
There are places around the world
that we call biodiversity hot spots,
503
00:46:30,820 --> 00:46:33,660
and they're places that are really
important for different species -
504
00:46:33,660 --> 00:46:36,380
the number of species,
and the unique species.
505
00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:40,260
SCREECHING
506
00:46:45,340 --> 00:46:48,900
These rich ecosystems can support
large numbers of orangutans...
507
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:55,380
..which is key for the genetic
health of the species.
508
00:46:57,900 --> 00:47:01,940
One of the nice things about
orangutans is that they require
509
00:47:01,940 --> 00:47:03,740
a lot of space.
510
00:47:03,740 --> 00:47:07,380
We often try and give them space
by making reserves large enough
511
00:47:07,380 --> 00:47:10,900
for them to exist in,
512
00:47:10,900 --> 00:47:15,100
so they act as what we call
umbrella species.
513
00:47:15,100 --> 00:47:19,300
By protecting them, we're protecting
large chunks of biodiversity.
514
00:47:23,860 --> 00:47:25,860
CHIRPING AND SCREECHING
515
00:47:31,260 --> 00:47:34,980
So far, Karmele's team has released
almost 100 orangutans
516
00:47:34,980 --> 00:47:36,460
into these forests...
517
00:47:41,580 --> 00:47:44,940
..but, despite these last
strongholds being protected,
518
00:47:44,940 --> 00:47:48,420
every year they come under threat
from a devastating force.
519
00:47:57,860 --> 00:48:01,540
The race is on to save
endangered orangutans from
520
00:48:01,540 --> 00:48:04,460
the burning forests of Borneo.
521
00:48:04,460 --> 00:48:07,860
The fires of 2015 were just off
the Richter scale
522
00:48:07,860 --> 00:48:12,820
in terms of their extent,
cos this was over 100,000 fires.
523
00:48:12,980 --> 00:48:17,780
This impacted the lives of
tens of millions of people.
524
00:48:20,900 --> 00:48:23,540
The air pollution
was just incredible.
525
00:48:23,540 --> 00:48:27,900
People were dying, babies were
dying, old people were dying...
526
00:48:27,900 --> 00:48:31,420
35 billion US dollars in damages.
527
00:48:31,420 --> 00:48:35,900
The costs to species like orangutans
are also enormous.
528
00:48:35,900 --> 00:48:39,620
In the five months of 2015
between June and October,
529
00:48:39,620 --> 00:48:42,980
almost 8,000 square miles of
Borneo's forests burned.
530
00:48:46,300 --> 00:48:50,140
Orangutan fatalities were estimated
to run into the hundreds.
531
00:48:51,580 --> 00:48:54,020
We're looking at the biggest
environmental disaster
532
00:48:54,020 --> 00:48:55,380
of the 21st century.
533
00:49:00,740 --> 00:49:04,780
The perfect storm that happened
in 2015, in terms of those fires,
534
00:49:04,780 --> 00:49:08,420
was partly natural,
but ultimately the consequences
535
00:49:08,420 --> 00:49:10,780
were completely made by
human beings.
536
00:49:10,780 --> 00:49:12,500
TOOL BUZZES
537
00:49:12,500 --> 00:49:15,300
2015 was one of those years
when everything went wrong.
538
00:49:15,300 --> 00:49:17,860
It was a really bad El Nino year.
539
00:49:17,860 --> 00:49:20,020
You get generally
much drier conditions
540
00:49:20,020 --> 00:49:22,660
for very long periods on end.
541
00:49:22,660 --> 00:49:25,700
The cause wasn't only
the El Nino weather pattern.
542
00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:30,740
It was the intentional use of fire
to clear peatlands
543
00:49:30,740 --> 00:49:35,700
so that they could be prepared for
palm oil and pulp plantations.
544
00:49:35,700 --> 00:49:38,900
First of all, the company dig these
massive canals,
545
00:49:38,900 --> 00:49:42,140
drain the peatlands, the swamps,
546
00:49:42,140 --> 00:49:46,020
dry them out, and then people
set fire to clear the land.
547
00:49:48,860 --> 00:49:52,700
If you set fire to peat, it's like
setting fire to a coal seam.
548
00:49:52,700 --> 00:49:54,540
It's pure hell to try
and put it out.
549
00:49:58,580 --> 00:50:02,460
The consequences are that those
fires will get out of control,
550
00:50:02,460 --> 00:50:04,700
will spread,
and will be unstoppable.
551
00:50:11,620 --> 00:50:13,620
ORANGUTAN GROANS
552
00:50:15,860 --> 00:50:17,300
In the middle of that,
553
00:50:17,300 --> 00:50:20,940
we were nonstop rescuing two
or three orangutans a week.
554
00:50:24,580 --> 00:50:26,620
HEART MONITOR BEEPS
555
00:50:32,100 --> 00:50:35,180
THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
556
00:50:35,180 --> 00:50:38,060
At the end of the fire season,
the rescues continued
557
00:50:38,060 --> 00:50:40,580
as orangutans, fleeing the flames,
558
00:50:40,580 --> 00:50:42,660
became stranded in
unsuitable forests.
559
00:50:48,740 --> 00:50:52,900
The most challenging was a giant
male the team named Jambu.
560
00:50:55,620 --> 00:50:57,100
Come on, come on, come on.
561
00:50:58,380 --> 00:51:00,380
HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE,
GUN CLICKS
562
00:51:03,300 --> 00:51:08,540
Successfully darted, the team must
now safely catch a 70-kilo ape.
563
00:51:09,820 --> 00:51:12,540
THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
564
00:51:12,540 --> 00:51:15,500
We were all just waiting
for him to fall...
565
00:51:18,660 --> 00:51:21,020
..and actually sometimes
there are accidents.
566
00:51:26,340 --> 00:51:28,180
TREE RUSTLES,
THEY SHOUT
567
00:51:28,180 --> 00:51:32,820
Once you see the orangutan falling,
it's the most stressful time,
568
00:51:32,820 --> 00:51:36,100
because you know that
that's the biggest risk.
569
00:51:36,100 --> 00:51:38,060
THEY SHOUT IN OWN LANGUAGE
570
00:51:40,580 --> 00:51:43,260
At the moment when Jambu
hits the ground,
571
00:51:43,260 --> 00:51:45,860
it's almost like time stops.
572
00:51:55,540 --> 00:51:57,620
It happens so quickly,
you cannot really...
573
00:51:57,620 --> 00:52:02,860
Even, like, trying to go back and
look at the video in slow motion,
574
00:52:03,140 --> 00:52:05,820
I don't think that you really have
time to think.
575
00:52:14,100 --> 00:52:16,940
The only thing that I can think of
is the safety of the animal.
576
00:52:21,380 --> 00:52:25,460
The first thing you do is just go
and listen to the heart rate.
577
00:52:25,460 --> 00:52:30,180
The most important thing is to make
sure that the orangutan is alive.
578
00:52:30,180 --> 00:52:31,780
Then you move to the next thing.
579
00:52:34,820 --> 00:52:36,820
IN OWN LANGUAGE:
580
00:52:48,780 --> 00:52:51,660
And in that way,
then he hit his head.
581
00:52:53,900 --> 00:52:56,740
While my colleague was
checking the animal,
582
00:52:56,740 --> 00:52:58,900
just for any other injury,
583
00:52:58,900 --> 00:52:59,980
I stitched it up.
584
00:53:04,860 --> 00:53:06,900
THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
585
00:53:12,860 --> 00:53:15,700
If there is any health problem,
586
00:53:15,700 --> 00:53:19,700
we will bring the animal to the
centre and keep it in our quarantine
587
00:53:19,700 --> 00:53:23,060
for a few days or weeks before
we get him back to the forest.
588
00:53:30,900 --> 00:53:34,540
The next day,
when vets checked on Jambu,
589
00:53:34,540 --> 00:53:36,780
they realised his legs
weren't functioning properly.
590
00:53:41,220 --> 00:53:44,140
At first, they suspected the fall
had damaged his spine.
591
00:53:47,940 --> 00:53:50,980
We took some X-rays,
and then we realised
592
00:53:50,980 --> 00:53:54,780
that he was full of pellets.
593
00:53:54,780 --> 00:53:56,500
They were pellets from an airgun.
594
00:54:01,340 --> 00:54:03,180
We counted 13 of them.
595
00:54:06,860 --> 00:54:10,700
We see it very often,
like in the case of Didik.
596
00:54:14,180 --> 00:54:19,220
Sometimes when orangutans
are hanging out in farms,
597
00:54:19,340 --> 00:54:23,620
people want to scare them away,
and for that they use airguns.
598
00:54:27,540 --> 00:54:31,660
Most of the times,
people are aiming to the mothers,
599
00:54:31,660 --> 00:54:36,420
but sometimes the babies
get hit as well,
600
00:54:36,420 --> 00:54:41,580
or, like in this case, we think that
the pellet might have hit his spine.
601
00:54:43,020 --> 00:54:45,660
He was not completely,
totally paralysed,
602
00:54:45,660 --> 00:54:50,700
but his legs were not as functional
as they should be.
603
00:54:59,780 --> 00:55:01,820
HEARTBEAT THUMPS
604
00:55:01,820 --> 00:55:03,780
HEART MONITOR BEEPS
605
00:55:20,340 --> 00:55:22,580
He still had some function
in the legs.
606
00:55:25,740 --> 00:55:30,340
He had lived with this problem
for a long time.
607
00:55:30,340 --> 00:55:32,940
There was no reason why
we should not release him.
608
00:55:40,900 --> 00:55:44,140
It takes a lot of effort
from a lot of people
609
00:55:44,140 --> 00:55:48,780
for just one single orangutan,
but I think it's worth it.
610
00:55:48,780 --> 00:55:51,660
THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
611
00:55:51,660 --> 00:55:54,980
Looking at the decline of
orangutans in the wild,
612
00:55:54,980 --> 00:55:57,740
and how quickly they are
disappearing,
613
00:55:57,740 --> 00:56:02,500
caring about every single individual
is becoming more and more important.
614
00:56:08,100 --> 00:56:10,500
If there is something that
can keep us going,
615
00:56:10,500 --> 00:56:12,580
it's to see an orangutan
being released.
616
00:56:23,340 --> 00:56:25,340
WOMAN SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
617
00:56:37,340 --> 00:56:40,620
We are wiping out our closest
living relatives,
618
00:56:40,620 --> 00:56:43,660
which is not very clever for a
species that had the gall to
619
00:56:43,660 --> 00:56:46,700
name itself Homo sapiens -
"the wise man".
620
00:56:49,020 --> 00:56:52,460
If you ask yourself the question,
"Who has the power to stop this?"
621
00:56:52,460 --> 00:56:55,340
There is no one magic-bullet
solution.
622
00:56:56,780 --> 00:57:00,100
We need to work with communities
and governments in the areas where
623
00:57:00,100 --> 00:57:02,340
they're found, but we also
need to work with consumers
624
00:57:02,340 --> 00:57:04,060
in the west as well.
625
00:57:08,820 --> 00:57:12,180
I think the way the world is moving,
and the way investment is moving,
626
00:57:12,180 --> 00:57:14,940
there's only one solution for me,
and that is sustainable palm oil.
627
00:57:17,020 --> 00:57:21,820
Now is the time to call on the
companies that produce products
628
00:57:21,820 --> 00:57:26,100
with palm oil and to demand that
they ensure that their products
629
00:57:26,100 --> 00:57:29,940
do not drive the deforestation
of Borneo's rainforests.
630
00:57:31,780 --> 00:57:35,620
That means supermarkets,
it means food producers,
631
00:57:35,620 --> 00:57:40,300
it means institutions like the EU
and national governments saying,
632
00:57:40,300 --> 00:57:45,140
"No more palm oil until
we can guarantee it comes from
633
00:57:45,140 --> 00:57:47,020
"legal and sustainable sources."
634
00:57:56,820 --> 00:58:00,420
We now are the dominant animal
on the planet,
635
00:58:00,420 --> 00:58:08,740
and the fate of all other organisms
and us is entirely in our hands.
636
00:58:08,740 --> 00:58:10,740
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