Tours to Orangutans, Kalimantan

Habitat destruction due to mining, logging and forest fires have decimated populations of Borneo’s famous ginger ape – the world’s largest tree-dwelling monkey. But numbers have begun to creep up again in recent years thank to the efforts of a few small rehabilitation centres, such as Pondik Tanggui (featured on our Indonesia-Borneo tours) where rescued Orangutans are trained how to find food and socialize with other animals before being released back into the wild. Some return to be fed each morning on special platforms – watched by wildlife enthusiasts from across the world.