Orangutans need healthy rainforests. They need fruit trees to feed from, plus large areas of connected forest canopy so they can move safely and make a nest each night. Yet pressures on the Sumatran rainforest from agriculture infrastructure and other developments, result in forest loss and fragmented forest islands. This isolates rare, wild orangutan populations and threatens their future survival. It threatens our future too as rainforests help to stabilise our global climate.

We will work in partnership with forest-edge communities in Sumatra to rewild vulnerable and degraded rainforest landscapes. Our REWILD strategy focuses on creating long-lasting, self-sustaining natural systems integrated with the human communities around them. We will scale up by growing our network of frontline collaborators, supporting them to enhance, re-establish and connect more hectares of orangutan habitat to create resilient rainforest landscapes.