Orangutan Island DVD

A desperate struggle for survival is raging in the heart of Borneo's forests. Illegal logging rapidly is destroying the orangutans' last home in the wild leaving hundreds of orangutan babies orphaned and homeless. The future appears bleak for the red-haired people of the forest who share 97% of our DNA. But a groundbreaking project offers a ray of hope that one of our closest relatives can be saved. Enter project pioneer and founder of the largest primate rescue project in the world Lone Droscher-Nielsen. Thanks to the passion and perseverance of Lone and her team... at B.O.S (Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation) project - the Nyaru Menteng Rescue and Rehabilitation Center 35 young orangutans of Forest School 103 will get the chance to live wild on a protected 100-acre island. Here they will hone their survival skills with the hope that one day they can return to their natural habitat. For the first time on DVD viewers can watch these normally solitary creatures battle for power and struggle to form their own society on Orangutan Island. Follow this lively bunch as they leave school for their real world education when Lone and her team transfer the social and loveable Cha Cha the mischievous Bandit Boys scrappy Daisy femme fatale Jasmine moody Chen Chen and the rest of their classmates to the island. Here they must overcome their traumatized childhoods and cope without the constant human support they've come to depend on. How will they handle the transition from the center? Will they remember the skills they were taught to survive? Just as important will the bonds they formed while at Nyaru Menteng endure and serve as a basis for creating a communal society? Or will issues of dominance prove too destructive? [show more]

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