Only Borneo and Sumatra are home to the world's dwindling population of our orangutan cousins. But their habitat is being destroyed by palm oil related deforestation at a rapid pace. This causes great gaps in the territories that link one group to another - important for mixing the gene pool as well as for finding new food sources.
To help stem this decline, Hutan and the Sabah Wildlife Department installed a number of rope bridges across tributaries of the Kinabatangan in order to reconnect fragments of the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary (LKWS) for Orang-utans.
The picture shows the very first time a wild orangutan chose to use the rope bridge.
Avatar Contest #444 - Rope
Posted - 11/08/2012 : 03:54:04
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