Heartrending moment tiny,terrified orangutan baby is plucked to safety after he and his mother were found starving

Wide-eyed in fright, a baby orangutan tries his best to escape the clutches of a looming man. He and his mother have been threatened with starvation by the expansion of palm oil plantations which are destroying their natural habitat in the Sumatran forest. It's no surprise the sight of yet more humans has terrified them, but these ones have arrived to take them to safety.

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