MPOGCF INITIATIVES TO PROTECT ORANGUTANS

Become an adoptive parent of the orangutan. Your donation will help ensure the ‘child’ will be nurtured until he is safe to be returned to the forest. – AFP photo

A SMALL brown figure strides defiantly towards a towering industrial digger, desperately trying to beat the machine away to stop it from tearing down its home in Borneo’s rainforest.

This heartbreaking battle between an orangutan and the menacing digger was featured in an episode of BBC’s docuseries Climate Change: The Facts narrated by renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough that presents the damaging effects of climate change which include deforestation, whereby large areas of rainforest are cleared and replaced with agriculture.