{"id":6548,"date":"2017-03-24T10:03:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2017-03-24T10:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:03:53","slug":"orangutan-news-video-captures-conservationists-saving-orangutan-in-a-raging-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/orangutan-news-video-captures-conservationists-saving-orangutan-in-a-raging-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Orangutan News:  Video Captures Conservationists Saving Orangutan in a Raging River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6551\" src=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ice_screenshot_20170324-095953.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ice_screenshot_20170324-095953.png 819w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ice_screenshot_20170324-095953-600x364.png 600w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ice_screenshot_20170324-095953-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ice_screenshot_20170324-095953-768x466.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>from Coconuts Jakarta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to know why the orangutan in this video was trying to cross this perilous section of the Lesan River in East Kalimantan. It might have simply been exploring, but we\u2019d venture to guess that it was driven by hunger or fear caused by the loss of its natural habitat, a danger more and more of Indonesia\u2019s endangered orangutans face every day.<\/p>\n<p>What we know for sure is that this primate was pretty lucky that a group of conservationists from the Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP) happened to come across it while it hung for dear life to save itself from being swept into the raging river\u2019s waters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This excerpt from a news article appeared in Coconuts Jakarta and the video can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/coconuts.co\/jakarta\/news\/viral-dramatic-video-captures-conservationists-struggling-save-desperate-orangutan-drowning-raging-river\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Coconuts Jakarta It\u2019s impossible to know why the orangutan in this video was trying to cross this perilous section of the Lesan River in East Kalimantan. It might have simply been exploring, but we\u2019d venture to guess that it was driven by hunger or fear caused by the loss of its natural habitat, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-center"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Orangutan News: Video Captures Conservationists Saving Orangutan in a Raging River - Orangutan Conservancy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/orangutan-news-video-captures-conservationists-saving-orangutan-in-a-raging-river\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Orangutan News: Video Captures Conservationists Saving Orangutan in a Raging River - Orangutan Conservancy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"from Coconuts Jakarta It\u2019s impossible to know why the orangutan in this video was trying to cross this perilous section of the Lesan River in East Kalimantan. 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