Orangutan Released After 9 Years Of Intensive Rehabilitation In Nonprofit’s ‘Jungle School’

Orangutan Released After 9 Years Of Intensive Rehabilitation In Nonprofit’s ‘Jungle School’

Orangutan Released After 9 Years Of Intensive Rehabilitation In Nonprofit’s ‘Jungle School’ – credit, the Borneo Orangutan Rescue Alliance, supplied A conservation project just announced the successful release of Popi, a female orangutan rescued as an infant, into the Busang Ecosystem of East Borneo. After nearly nine years of intensive rehabilitation, Popi has now returned to her natural rainforest home thanks to a collaboration led by the Borneo Orangutan Rescue Alliance (BORA). – credit, the Borneo Orangutan Rescue Alliance, supplied Popi was confiscated in September 2016 from a household in the Sempayau village near a palm oil plantation, where she had been kept illegally as a pet. Just eight weeks old at the time of her rescue she entered into the BORA team members’ hands completely dependent and highly vulnerable. Popi’s story reflects the wider crisis facing orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra. In the wild, young orangutans suckle from their mothers for up to 8 years, while learning vita…