In a couple of days, Wildhood is making its first field trip to Indonesia to meet with potential partners to team up with concerning the conservation of orangutans. Indonesia’s rainforest on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra are the only homes to the remaining wild orangutans and their population, now somewhere estimated to be around 50.000-56.000 individuals and classified as critically endangered by the IUCN. The population is rapidly declining, mostly because of habitat destruction where the orangutan’s home – the forest – is being burned and logged to make space for growing plantations and industries. It is not only the orangutans, amongst hundreds of other species that suffers, last year an estimate of 100,000 people died as a result from the fires and major orangutan habitat were lost.