Orang Utans - Back to Freedom (30/35)

Orang Utans - Back to Freedom (30/35)

Although it is now forbidden, young orang-utans are still being caught and sold. Many of these animals are confiscated. Yet what is to be done with these animals once they have been rescued? Orang-utans are quick learners, but the way back to the wilderness involves an enormous learning programme for animals who have never actually lived there. In Wanariset on Borneo, Indonesia, the Dutchman Willi Smits is in charge of a resettlement project for the threatened apes. The animals are to receive a habitat which is suitable for them and which has a future itself. The research team will continue to observe the development of the animals following their resettlement in the wilds. This film describes the fate of these animals in several stages: from their arrival at the research centre - usually as confiscated babies - up to their reimmersion on unspoiled areas of the rain forest.