"A baby orangutan clings onto its mother at a release site in Tanjung Hanau, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. A half-century ago, more than three-quarters of Indonesia, a sprawling archipelagic nation spanning the width of the United States, was blanketed in plush tropical rainforest. But in the rush to supply the world with pulp, paper and, more recently palm oil _ used in everything from lipstick and soap to ""clean-burning"" fuel _ half those trees have been cleared. For the first time in years, scientist Birute Mary Galdikas has hopes of releasing them into the wild, thanks to a Hong Kong-based development company's plans to protect a 224,866-acre stretch of forest"
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