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Following the work with endangered orangutans of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation

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Orangutan Diary: Series 2

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The Rescue Team fights to save a young orangutan held illegally in a tiny crate.

Steve Leonard and Michaela Strachan with stories from the world's biggest ape rescue centre. The Rescue Team fights to save a young orangutan held illegally in a tiny crate.

Steve Leonard and Michaela Strachan introduce more stories from the world's biggest ape rescue centre, home to over 600 orphaned and homeless orangutans.

The Rescue Team battles along miles of muddy roads and into the night, hoping to save a young orangutan held illegally in a tiny crate. We meet orphans Peanut and Pickle enjoying their daily tickles, and try to help Ruthie, a self-harming orangutan traumatised by her time in captivity and left psychologically scarred. After a terrifying fall, Sumanto, an orangutan already weakened by illness, fights for his life.

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Michaela Strachan and Steve Leonard see what life is like for abandoned orangutans

Michaela Strachan and Steve Leonard see what life is like for abandoned orangutans in Borneo, at the Nyaru Menteng rescue centre

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