When a street was constructed by way of the forest the place the orangutans lived in Indonesia’s Sumatra, it break up the Sumatran orangutan neighborhood in two and result in fears that inbreeding might trigger well being implications and eventual extinction.
Conservation teams the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) and Tangguh Hutan Khatulistiwa, with the assistance of the federal government, constructed a cover bridge within the hope the orangutan communities would use it to move between the 2 forest sides.
Nonetheless, the bridge remained unused for 2 years – that was till one orangutan braved the crossing and made it to the opposite facet.
Helen Buckland, chief government of SOS, informed the BBC how the lengthy anticipated and thrilling crossing might vastly change issues for the primates.
Video Emaan Warraich.