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Baby orangutans aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup Indonesia are going to school to learn skills like finding food and making a nest. The school hopes the skills the young apes learn will mean they can be reintroduced aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup the wild and survive aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup their own. The school was set aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup by International Animal Rescue (IAR). There are currently 102 orangutans living aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup the centre. A spokesperson said: "We are committed to rescuing and rehabilitating as many orangutans as we can and giving them a second chance to live safely aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup their natural environment." Not all aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup them attend the school because some have suffered long-term injuries so they can never go back aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup the forest. It could take aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup to eight years to get others ready to return aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup the wild.

The IAR centre cares aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup animals that have been rescued aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup the wild. Some aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup the baby orangutans lost their parents because of illegal poaching, habitat loss and forest fires. The IAR said they "are suffering and dying because aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup the systematic destruction aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup the rainforest, primarily aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup palm oil production". Other baby orangutans have been stolen aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup their mothers to be sold as pets. There are also adult orangutans aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup the centre. These have spent most aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup their lives in captivity. The World Wildlife Fund estimates there are aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup 45,000 to 69,000 orangutans aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup Borneo, but their numbers are decreasing because their forests are being destroyed aroundatbyforfrominintoofontoup illegal logging and palm oil companies.