{"id":411600,"date":"2026-04-26T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/411600\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:14:11","slug":"how-one-orangutan-braved-new-bridge-to-unite-his-split-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/411600\/","title":{"rendered":"How one orangutan braved new bridge to unite his split community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">When a road was built through the forest where the orangutans lived in Indonesia&#8217;s Sumatra, it split the Sumatran orangutan community in two and led to fears that inbreeding could cause health implications and eventual extinction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Conservation groups the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) and Tangguh Hutan Khatulistiwa, with the help of the government, built a canopy bridge in the hope the orangutan communities would use it to pass between the two forest sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">However, the bridge remained unused for two years &#8211; that was until one orangutan braved the crossing and made it to the other side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Helen Buckland, chief executive of SOS, told the BBC how the long anticipated and exciting crossing could vastly change things for the primates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Video Emaan Warraich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a road was built through the forest where the orangutans lived in Indonesia&#8217;s Sumatra, it split the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-411600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}