Rescued Orangutans Mata and Mynah Released into National Park

IAR’s team in Indonesia has carried out the release of two orangutans into the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (BBBR NP) in West Borneo. Mata, an adult male orangutan, was a victim of the fires that decimated the Indonesian rainforest in 2015. He was rescued last December from a village called Sei Mata-mata. Mynah, an adult female and also a survivor of the fires, was rescued from farmland in Tanjungpura village, not far from IAR’s centre in Ketapang. This fantastic footage shows the huge amount of effort and organisation that goes into these releases.