Photo by @mattiasklumofficial Borneo is on fire and the already severely threatened orangutan is under even higher pressure! The 2015 forest fires are the worst in many years, rivaled only by the fires of 1997, during which as many as 13 million hectares of rainforest in Borneo and Sumatra were burned. Pressure is mounting on Indonesia to control the raging fires that continue to cloak the country and its South-east Asian neighbours in a hazardous haze. Due to irresponsible and illegal logging operations, palm oil industry and the current fires, orangutan rehabilitation centers like Nyaru Menteng in Central Kalimantan, Borneo are filled to the brim with orphaned orangutan babies like this one! Go to @mattiasklumofficial to see a wild adult female and her baby, sharing yellow durian fruit some 50 meters (150 feet) up in the canopy, photographed from one of my tree blinds in Danum Valley, Malaysian Borneo. An increasing number of wild orangutans will be sentenced to a long life in captivity or killed by poaching, logging operations or the current fires. Help save the orangutan and the rainforest! Support organizations like WWF or BOS and by sharing this message! Shot on assignment for @natgeo. #BOS #helpsave #iucn #redapes #borneo #orangutan #conservation #wwf #savetherainforest @thephotosociety @natgeocreative @natgeo @bigworldsmallplanet @mattiasklumcollection by natgeo

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