Massive swaths of rainforest have been bulldozed on the southwestern Asian island of Borneo recently to keep up with the booming palm oil industry. A viral image shared by the organization International Animal Rescue (IAR) of an orangutan clasping a lone tree back in 2013 showed just how high the cost has been for countless animals as their homes are destroyed.
IAR was dispatched with a local forestry group to a palm plantation to see about the orangutan, named Boon-Mee, and a pair of others like her left in the aftermath of a deforestation project.
