Carried home on bamboo poles: eight rescued orangutans get a new forest in Borneo

As wildfires burn through Borneo, Indonesian authorities and conservation workers have given eight endangered orangutans a second chance. Three mother-and-child pairs and two adolescent males — whose forest homes were destroyed — were carried for six hours by car, an hour by boat and two more on foot, cages hoisted on bamboo poles, to the safety of Batu Nyambu protected forest. Since August, 46 orangutans have been rescued this way, health-checked one by one before being set free to live naturally again.