Saving the world's rarest great ape: the Tapanuli Orangutan

The Batang Toru Dam is being built right in the middle of the Tapanuli orangutan’s habitat in Indonesia - threatening the survival of the world’s most endangered species of great ape.
This disastrous dam project was recently bought by Chinese company State Development & Investment Corporation (SDIC).
We call on SDIC’s Scotland-based subsidiary Red Rock Power to formally raise the dam project with their parent company, and implore them to halt the dam’s construction before it’s too late.
Find out more & follow the campaign: act.mightyearth.org/scotland

[@raihanabari7896]

Tapanuli orangutans are the critically endangered only 800 left in the wild. Saving the rest of their habitat from human hands depended on their survival.

[@KinjiKat]

Are these a newly discovered sub-species of Borneo and/or Sumatran orangutans? We have to do more to save these beautiful creatures.

[@magicmoney9653]

@Sandra Lee Until Elephants and Apes can create and run complex governments and societies, cure diseases and develop vaccines, grow and cultivate crops,and are created in the likeness of almightd God then we can discuss their lives being just as important as a human being . From what I gather they wander around for 50-80 years in the wild never leaving their mother for most of them, grunting, snorting and destroying everything in their path. How impressive !! Not,! We are created in the likeness of God and are his divine creation. We are each precious with t, and have been given CHARGE AND DOMINON over the beasts of the earth. Not equality but dominion! It's the left wing atheist animal worshipping scum trying to push this ridiculous idea that an elephant life is equal to that of a human being. Never will be!!! We have the right of way to build, expand and prosper the human race. If you want to be an idiot and cry over these instinct driven beasts who would stomp you to death in a heartbeat if it was hungry. Go for it! And I'm sure you will find lonely, insecure, unintelligent or mentally ill people to agree with you. Those of us who know who we are in God will fight your ridiculous agenda to the last. You can bet on that.

[@adesrimulyati5325]

Jaga dan terus lestarikan Orang Utan Tapanuli .

[@cuidemoslanaturaleza7326]

Hay que defender las selvas y bosques a toda costa en Sumatra!Hay que defender a nuestros hermanos orangutanes!

[@Ashley-vj8ox]

Amazing

[@serunismt]

Please Tapanuli people protect them 🙏

[@Sassyglbeauty]

Shouldn’t we be trying to have some on captivity to try and increase their numbers?

[@deidrelorenz8307]

Thanks for sharing this video & showing us these crtically endangered orangutans. We badly need to figure out to ban & n8t use products. Palm oil is used in so many priducts & manufacturers use other terms for palm oil. It's power & greed for these plantation palm oil owners. And, we in turn are part of problem. It's a cyclical, systemic problem.

[@JonasWhite]

We must protect our orange cousins with our lives...like our very existence counts on it!

[@kristidavis9945]

We have to stop the palm oil plantations and big business from destroying our rainforest and jungles.

[@yomama8873]

😢😢😢😢❤

[@jaweel6205]

These beautiful creatures are 10,000 years advanced over the south side of Chicago

[@TucsonPete1028]

Oh boy that’s a funny one. You are so correct I am a really nice thing about these orangutans are they don’t sag their pants.

[@Eva-oe3se]

Wha are not animal protecting laws in this country?

[@keypath4389]

DAMN THE DAM!!!

[@brendabrinkmanpasichnyk3500]

Stand up and say no - to big business!

[@anitakoorn3448]

Great place, now you've got to ensure it stays pristine. Keep poachers and palm oil companies out!

[@dennisblake3204]

Prosecute palm oil farmers

[@Eva-oe3se]

Petition is signed. Thanks for raising awerness, and taking actions.

[@davidoconnor393]

So we can make cookies donuts Twinkies candy bars and dentists and diabetics we need palm oil so to hell with the inhabitants we need those cavities quicker than they need homes

[@brendabrinkmanpasichnyk3500]

It is so unhealthy. Hawaii put out a huge campaign a few years back, because the majority of people were obese and people dieing age 40 - from clogged arteries...alk from consuming palm oil! In Canada, its in everything now. Margarine, coffee cream, baked goods. Its terrible! But because Hawaii wiser now. They need to sell it somewhere. I guess our government thinks were stupid?! I was thinking of protesting at grocery stores and manufacturers?!

[@togian755]

Most Indonesian palm oil goes to India and Pakistan to make laundry detergent. India's population has overtaken china's too. The market there is now so huge it's going to be nearly impossible to stop the Indonesian govt from selling everything out the way it almost has already.

[@togian755]

Batang Toru needs to be officially declared a major conservation area and given top priority among Indonesia's conservation lands. In fact, it should be added to Sumatra's rain forest heritage sites. IMO. Hard to believe such a beautiful natural area was subjected to such brutal maltreatment. All development at Batang Toru needs to be halted.

[@davidoconnor393]

@@togian755 you cannot blame a vegetarian country for any damn problems with extincting mammals on this planet that's the most ridiculous theory I've ever heard

[@davidoconnor393]

@@togian755 that sounds all good and nice and neat and dandy but it will never happen because there was no relationship to us which is why we will kill them off,,,

[@jacopostatti3129]

God help the forest! Jesus, save the animals! Protect the animals, the trees, all the ecosystem and the LIFE! GOD, and all the saints, all the angels in Your System: please, come down here and help the innocents from the killers and evil and destruction! I call You. We need You. Where are You?! I call You to PROTECT LIFE! JESUS! where are you?! What are you looking?! COME DOWN HERE

[@Jack44M]

calling on God and Jesus won't make any difference at all. It's silly to think it would.

[@jacopostatti3129]

@@Jack44M sometimes I think mankind deserve to die, now, for all these genocides. You and me to. We are criminals, not only for palm oil and destroying Borneo. I think we don't deserve to live on Earth, we don't know the Peace, brotherhood, we don't care at all at Life. We care about other things that matters with SOCIETY and egoism. I don't call me out. I weep everyday. We don't deserve to live on Earth. I cry. Please God help the animals, please protect them from human greed and blind profict. Ciao Jask44M

[@Jack44M]

@@jacopostatti3129 lol.....your diatribe has nothing to do with your call for prayer to a non existent supernatural being. You failed miserably.

[@jacopostatti3129]

@@Jack44M Jack, can you touch that there is no competition here with you? Maybe we can comprehend eachother. I expressed my nausea, disapponting with human crimes, my hopes and prayers. If I pray the Void and God doesn't exist... what can I fail or lose? You can laugh on me if you don't agree? Ok, but also nothing to convince, to fail or lose, to compete me against you. I just spoke my rant and nausea for animals genocides by human society system. Only harmless sadness and desperation words. Could you really laugh for this? I hope you have a good happy day Jack.

[@alicethomasse5309]

Its not an ape!!! Ita an Primate!! Human DNA!! LIKE US!!! when you want to dobwith you video, lurn youre lesson