IT has been seven years since Aldrianto Priadjati and his fellow workers at Wanariset Reintroduction Center in Samboja, East Kalimantan last returned rehabilitated orangutans to the wilds in 2002. Now much of the forests in the area have been fragmented by logging operators. “We can’t release the orangutans to areas that have been so fragmented,” said Aldrianto.

Aldrianto said Wanariset still has 220 orangutans to rehabilitate and return t