Michelle the baby orang-utan gets ready for freedom

Michelle the baby orang-utan.

Some good news on the conservation front, Michelle the baby orang-utan which our Southeast Asia team sponsored has recently been set free into the Kabili Reserve that surrounds the rehabilitation centre where she has spent her early years after being rescued on the edge of a palm plantation.

The plantation workers had sent dogs to chase her and her mother away and in the panic that ensued the two were separated from each other, the workers rescued the baby and took her to the Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre.

She is now four years of age and although she is ready to go back to the wild she is still young and will continue to be monitored by rangers in the reserve to check on her progress.