Nine orangutans climbed back into the Borneo canopy this week — four of them mothers, three expecting

Conservationists opened the transport cages in Batu Nyambu forest, a protected area of 23,000 hectares (about 57,000 acres) in Indonesian Borneo, and nine orangutans scrambled up into the trees. The group includes four mothers with their young — and final health checks found three of the females are pregnant, so the forest will soon hear even more small arrivals. The orangutans spent four to eight weeks recovering at a rehabilitation centre in Ketapang after being rescued from fire-affected plantation land in August and September, and travelled by vehicle, boat and on foot to reach their new home.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: institutional program