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Orangutan Island

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  • 2007-2009
  • 2 Seasons
  • Animal Planet
  • Documentary
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Orangutan Island is an American documentary television series. The project manager, Lone Drøscher Nielsen of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, the founder and manager of the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project, regularly appears with the orangutans in the show. The show focuses on a group of orphaned orangutans at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Center that are raised to go against their normally independent nature and instead cooperate and live together in a society so they can be left to live wild on their protected island.

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Rodd Houston
Narrator
Iain Fraser
Narrator
Virginia Madsen
Narator

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Episode 1

Cheating Extinction

Tue, Feb 24, 200943 mins

Follow Lone Dröscher-Nielsen and her team at Borneo's Nyaru Menteng Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre as they care for 700 orphaned orang-utans.

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