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Saving the orangutans

The friendly ape species could be extinct in as few as 25 years. Dedicated groups of conservationists are making sure that doesn't happen.

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by Lauren Hansen
June 16, 2016

A wild orangutan, trapped in an overpopulated swath of forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, looks down from a tree on Jan. 7, 2016.

(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Orangutans, shrouded by haze, walk in the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation camp in Nyaru Menteng, Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province, on Oct. 5, 2015.

(REUTERS/Rosa Panggabean/Antara Foto)The majority of these orangutans live in the dwindling tropical forests of the Borneo and Sumatra islands near Indonesia and Malaysia, sites that have bee

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A female orangutan gets into a cage after being rescued from a resident's home in Pasuruan, East Java, on July 10, 2012.

(REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas)

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A police investigator carries a baby orangutan, after it was seized from a wildlife trafficking syndicate, at a police station in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, on Nov. 9, 2015.

(REUTERS/FB Anggoro/Antara Foto)

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A veterinarian takes a picture of a 2-year-old orangutan during a health examination at Kao Pratubchang Conservation Centre in Ratchaburi, Thailand, on Aug. 27, 2015. This orangutan is part of a group of 14 that will return to the wild

(REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha)

An orangutan walks along a rail at the Sepilok Orangutan Reserve near Sandakan, in East Malaysia, on Oct. 24, 2009. The center was started in 1964 to help rehabilitate orphaned baby orangutans rescued from logging sites, plantations, a

(AP Photo/Mark Baker)

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A worker at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program stands near a holding cage at a rehabilitation center in Kuta Mbelin, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on July 10, 2015. The orangutans at the center were mostly rescued from palm oil pl

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Michael, a young male orangutan, sits in his cage at the Tegal Alur Wild Animal Rescue Center near the main international airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2003.

(REUTERS/Darren Whiteside)

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A juvenile orangutan clings to its caretaker on Jan. 10, 2011, at a center in Pasir Panjang, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Hundreds of orangutans live at the rehabilitation center where they learn the skills they need to survive before being released back into the wild. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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A worker at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program carries a tranquilized Sumatran orangutan as it's being prepared to be released into the wild at a rehabilitation center in Kuta Mbelin, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on July 10, 2015

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Anak, a 31-year-old orangutan, holds her 5-day-old baby Apie in her arms in Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, central Netherlands, July 31, 2007. The baby was born in captivity at the zoo. The zoo participates in the European Endangered Species

(REUTERS/Michael Kooren)

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