Smuggled orangutans start new life after repatriation to Indonesia


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  • Saturday, 19 Dec 2020

An orangutan, which was seized from the Thailand-Malaysia border 3 years ago, looks from a cage at Sultan Thaha Saifuddin Airport in Jambi before being released into the forest, in Indonesia December 18, 2020. Antara Foto/Danendra via REUTERS

JAMBI (Reuters) - A pair of critically endangered orangutans, rescued from smugglers on the Thai-Malaysian border in 2017, have arrived in Indonesia to undergo rehabilitation so they can finally be released back into their native forest habitat.

Believed to be between the ages of four to six the orangutans, Ung Aing and Natalee, spent three years at Khao Pratab Chang Wildlife Breeding Center in central Ratchaburi province, Thailand.

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