{"id":632893,"date":"2026-04-27T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632893\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:18:12","slug":"watch-as-sumatran-orangutan-uses-canopy-bridge-to-cross-forest-in-world-first-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632893\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch as Sumatran orangutan uses canopy bridge to cross forest in world-first moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A<a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.style.yahoo.com\/orangutan-filmed-treating-wound-pain-102846515.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Sumatran orangutan;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Sumatran orangutan<\/a> used a canopy bridge to cross a road that had split his community in two in a world-first moment for the species, according to conservationists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage shared by the Sumatran <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/orangutan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Orangutan;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Orangutan<\/a> Society (SOS) shows the primate swinging across the rope bridge over the Lagan-Pagindar road, which became an essential route for local people when it opened in 2024, but created a physical barrier for around 350 wild orangutans and put them at risk of inbreeding and eventual extinction, SOS said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A rope bridge installed to allow the apes to cross the road went unused for two years &#8211; until a young male navigated across.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other primates have previously used canopy bridges to cross the public road, but this event confirms that critically endangered Sumatran orangutans will use them to overcome forest fragmentation, conservationists said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSeeing this young male <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/orangutan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:orangutan;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">orangutan<\/a> confidently cross the road is a huge milestone for conservation \u2013 proving that it is possible to stitch fragmented forests back together,\u201d SOS added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sumatran orangutan used a canopy bridge to cross a road that had split his community in two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,236748,57885,236749,236747,66,59705,130844,236746,323],"class_list":["post-632893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canopy-bridge","tag-conservationists","tag-forest-fragmentation","tag-rope-bridge","tag-science","tag-sos","tag-sumatran-orangutan","tag-sumatran-orangutan-society","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}