A cruel trade is tearing baby orangutans from their jungle homes to be sold abroad.

We get a smuggler’s story and meets the warriors risking their lives to save the great apes from extinction, and return them back to their jungle homes.

UPDATE: Thanks to the public response to the program, Jono from the quarantine centre in Jakarta is being moved to an orangutan sanctuary in Borneo where he will learn how to live in the wild.

Watch 730 follow Jono's journey back to the wild:    • For six years, this orangutan lived i...  

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