If You Need to Know About Love, Ask an Orangutan

Orangutans are the best known animals in Tanjung Puting. The park was declared a national park in 1982.

Photograph: Ian Wood/The Orangutan's World/The Orangutan Foundation

The Guardian:  The Bornean orangutan's world – in pictures

The critically endangered orangutan is under threat from hunting and habitat deforestation. A new book, The Orangutan’s World, is a photographic celebration of this great ape and its rainforest home in southern Borneo

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These not-exactly lovely creatures are possibly the most gentle on the planet.  The Rockhouse salutes every effort toward preserving the habitat which sustains them.


And the tarsier watches it all.

A tarsier in Tangkoko national park, Borneo.

Photograph: Ian Wood/The Orangutan's World/The Orangutan Foundation


There are so many extraordinary types of creatures in this jungle and all are vitally dependent on the preservation of their habitat.