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Read about how AHF helps Orangutans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Ian Williams<\/strong> NBC News Correspondent<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

One of the Sumatran orangutan\u2019s richest habitats, an area of swampland containing the highest density of the red apes on the planet, is being illegally slashed and burned by palm oil companies to make way for palm oil plantations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can’t stop them here, then there really is no hope,\u201d said Ian Singleton as we stood on the edge of what had once been pristine forest, home to hundreds of orangutans, but now reduced to a charred wilderness as far as the eye could see. As he spoke we could hear the distant sound of a chain saw.<\/p>\n

Singleton runs the Sumatra Orangutan Conservation Programme, an organization at the forefront of a battle to save what remains of the forest and the apes.<\/p>\n

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There are fewer than 7,000 of the critically endangered Sumatran orangutans left in the wild, according to a 2008 survey completed by Singleton and other scientists. The largest number live in a vast area of swampland and lowland forest close to the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrangutan paradise,\u201d Singleton calls the area \u2013 but it\u2019s a paradise under threat.<\/p>\n

\"\"Land cleared, drained and burned in the Tripa Peat Swamp Forest.<\/div>\n

The key battleground for Singleton is the Tripa Peat Swamp Forest, much of which has already been converted to palm oil plantations. The relentless march of the palm oil business is the biggest threat facing the orangutans.<\/p>\n

A cheap, edible oil, palm oil is found in almost half of all packaged supermarket products, from instant noodles, to cookies to ice cream, and Indonesia is the world’s biggest supplier.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, look,\u201d said Singleton, handing me a pair of field glasses. In the distance a large male orangutan moved gracefully across the canopy of trees. We would soon see three more.<\/p>\n

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There is something spell-binding about seeing an orangutan in its natural habitat, and for a while we were glued to that point, watching these high-wire masters at play. But excitement here was quickly tempered by the realization that the area of forest we were looking at was isolated and surrounded on three sides by plantations that were moving ever closer.<\/p>\n

Singleton concluded that these apes had just about enough forest to survive – for now.<\/p>\n

When he believes an orangutan is in danger, he said, he sends in a team to track and sedate it, transferring the animal to a sprawling rescue center he runs on the edge of the Sumatran city of Medan.<\/p>\n

Singleton sometimes refers to the center as a \u201crefugee camp.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the lucky few,\u201d Singleton told me during a visit there. \u201cThey are effectively refugees from forests that no longer exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

And like in refugee camps across the world, there was no shortage of agonizing stories of suffering and survival, but also resilience and hope.<\/p>\n

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Among the 55 orangutans in Singleton\u2019s care was a scrawny and bewildered 2-year-old named Chocolate, the newest arrival. Merely a toddler, Chocolate wrapped his arms and legs around Singleton, who lifted him carefully from a cot designed for a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a bit thin, but otherwise quite fit and feisty,\u201d Singleton said. He believes the mother was probably shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way a mother would allow a baby to be taken from her, not while she\u2019s still alive \u2013 never in a million years,\u201d said Singleton. Among orangutans, the bond between mother and child is one of the strongest in the animal kingdom, a child staying with its mom for as many as nine years.<\/p>\n

Most orangutans arrive at the center as toddlers, many lacking even the basic confidence to climb trees. You\u2019d have thought that came naturally to a great ape, but some youngsters will only scale the branches in the presence of a keeper, who acts as a surrogate mom.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not a term Singleton likes. The aim of his organization is to build the animals\u2019 skills and independence for an eventual return to the wild, though initially many are dependent on him and his staff.<\/p>\n

He also introduced me to Leuser, a big male, probably more than 40 years old and blind.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne day he went too near farmers at the edge of the forest and they took pot shots at him. They put 62 air rifle pellets into him, mostly around the head,\u201c Singleton said. Forty-eight are still there, and the X-ray resembles the speckled roof of a planetarium.<\/p>\n

In the top corner of a nearby cage, 9-year-old Bahroeni was sitting inside a large tire, one of his legs dangling, encased in a cast. He, too, had been sold as a pet when he was a toddler and, as he grew up, the nylon rope that tied him to a fence was never removed.<\/p>\n

Plantation owners and small holders frequently regard orangutans as pests, though there is profit to be had in illegally selling off the babies as pets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe law is very clear, but the enforcement is very weak,\u201d Singleton said, tickling one of the toddlers, who reacts with child-like convulsions.<\/p>\n

The center aims to return its refugees to the wild, in an undisturbed part of the forest, as soon as they are able to go.<\/p>\n

As we spoke, a group of keepers from the rescue center carried on a stretcher an anaesthetised young male named Dito. They lay him out on an operating table in the medical center and after making a small insertion in his neck, they implanted a transmitter.<\/p>\n

The transmitter will help Singleton monitor Dito\u2019s movements, \u201cso you know what they\u2019re doing, where they\u2019re going. That they are OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Singleton and colleague Graham Usher launch drone with camera to monitor illegal deforestation.<\/div>\n

On the Tripa frontline, Singleton and his team are now deploying a powerful new weapon: a drone, equipped with a small camera that will help them identify illegal forest clearing.<\/p>\n

The area is supposed to be a protected forest, and using fire to clear the land as well as converting deep peat are illegal practices under Indonesian law.<\/p>\n

Conservationists did have one recent victory, when one of the worst culprits, a company called Kallista Alam, had one of its operating permits revoked. That\u2019s never happened before, since Indonesia has a terrible track record in enforcing its own environmental laws.<\/p>\n

And Singleton says satellite imagery shows that burning has continued, even after Kallista Alam\u2019s permit was revoked.<\/p>\n

He is now urging criminal action against such companies and others involved in the illegal clearing, asking for their permits to be revoked, and the peat land to be restored.<\/p>\n

For all the horrible destruction laid out before us in Tripa, Singleton remains optimistic, believing that the tide may now be turning in favor of Indonesia\u2019s once lonely conservationists, and that the impunity with which the plantations destroyed the forest is at last being challenged.<\/p>\n

Before leaving Sumatra, Singleton took me to an area where his refugees are being re-located. He told me that for him nothing can quite match the satisfaction of seeing the often bruised and terrified animals that turn up at his rescue center back in the wild.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow they have a second chance of spending 30 or 40 years in the wild, and of having four or five babies,\u201d he told me as we tracked some recently released orangutans days later.<\/p>\n

There was a sudden movement of red fur through the thick forest canopy above us.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get a real kick out of this,\u201d Singleton said. \u201cIt\u2019s as if they never left, and if we\u2019d not been here they\u2019d have died.\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: Ian Williams’ full report, ‘At What Cost?’ airs Thursday, October 18 at 10pm\/9c on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams.<\/em><\/p>\n

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