Orphaned orangutans in Borneo

Please visit http://www.simonreeve.co.uk for more information. Simon Reeve meets orphaned orangutans in Borneo, Indonesia, while making his BBC TV series Equator. In Equator, Simon followed the equator through troubled areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, including Colombia and the Congo.
The Radio Times said Equator was an extraordinary journeyrevelatorythrilling and thought-provokinghits us with jaw-dropping factseye-openingdelivers a string of revealing snapshots. The Sunday Times said: You cannot expect much more from a documentary, frankly. And the Daily Mail said it was: Unmissablespectacular and thought-provoking.
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Simon Reeve is a bestselling author and broadcaster. In recent years hes travelled to scores of countries around the world for a series of BBC television documentaries.
The 2008 BBC TV series Tropic of Capricorn took Simon around the line marking the southern border of the tropics. His accompanying book, also called Tropic of Capricorn, is published by BBC Books.
In his Places That Dont Exist series Simon travelled to a group of unrecognised nations countries so obscure they dont officially exist, including Somaliland, South Ossetia, Transdniestria and Nagorno-Karabakh.
And in the series Meet the Stans, Simon visited the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Simons book The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, which warned of a new age of apocalyptic terrorism, was the first in the world on bin Laden and al Qaeda. Originally published in 1998 it has been a New York Times bestseller.
Simon has contributed to other books on organised crime, terrorism and biological warfare. His book One Day in September: the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, is also an Oscar-winning feature documentary film narrated by the actor Michael Douglas.
Simon has received a One World Broadcasting Trust award for an outstanding contribution to greater world understanding.
You can find out more information on Simons journeys, and see more of Simons films, at his website: http://www.simonreeve.co.uk or at http://www.youtube.com/shootandscribble
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• orangutan
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[thangacchi]

Now I know why people are so against palm oil products (even in shampoos). Organic products, here i come.

[americanfellow]

check labels and don't buy products containing palm oil. also, Nestle's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, WingStreet, A&W, Long John Silver’s and Girl Scout Cookies use palm oil. palm oil and timber companies pay the local Indonesians big money to clear the forest of trees. sometimes, they shoot the mama orangs to clear the trees when they are cut. this then orphans the baby orangs. they will become extinct if these practices are not stopped and a HUGE way to stop this is to boycott palm oil products

[ch2511]

i always like them...^^

[t1f1kyxz]

i am not racist but they look like Nigerian kids :P

[RReederHunt]

@pizzapingvin The human caretakers lead them to different plants that adult orangutans are known to eat. the people will put leaves in their mouths to indicate to the orphans that this is food. The caretakers also cute branches and big leaves and place them inside different types of frames to encourage them to try building nests. 

[RReederHunt]

Jungle school! Please let people enjoying your video know that they can directly help buy more rainforest as sanctuary area with the Rawa Kuno legacy forest project on the internet at orangutan(dot)org - (under the Get Involved menu)

[pizzapingvin]

I dont think its problematic for them to learn how to climb, what is essential is the knowledge regarding what to eat and where to find it which is passed down from the mother. How will they learn that climbing trees I wonder

[sunshine81561]

am glad that people like this look after these beaufifull things

[ppitm]

your spacebar is broken