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Orangutan Sepilok

Orangutan Sepilok project. Orang-utans are surprisingly soft, very intelligent and with a franchise almost looks confusing!

In Sepilok have the opportunity to work with this soft and very intelligent red apes in their natural surroundings. The interaction with these remarkable creatures, the people closest relatives, is an unforgettable experience!

orangutan sepilok

The orangutan is one of the animal and plant species, the most vulnerable Malaysia. Only in Borneo and Sumatra, the survival of Orang-utans is constantly threatened by forest fires, forestry, poaching and illegal hunting.

The Center for Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation lies near Sandakan on Borneo, Malaysia. The Center was established as a way of accommodation have been orphaned or injured, the Orang-utans, Nursing and Health, in the forest before he released. Many Orang-utans have lost ends here, in the camps of lumbermen or were rescued from captivity. Many are orphans who can not survive only in the forest.

"It was an experience that changed lives. A solution that has allowed me certain things to see - the release of the 23-year-old was in the Sepilok 8 years, 8 months, the Orang-utans to play in the lake, their teachers into the ropes to climb, look at the rehabilitation orangutans swing through the trees in the forest. It was not so impressive to say. "


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