Talking about why he was taking on this challenge, McEvoy said: “Orangutans, although they’re such wonderful creatures, they are critically endangered and their situation is getting worse all the time, because they keep losing habitat. <\/p>\n
“They’re nomadic so every night they make a new nest in a new location, and so they need a lot of space to move around.<\/p>\n
“The forest has been nibbled away at all the time, and so I found this charity that helps replant and protect the forest and sustain their habitat called SOS Sumatran Orangutan Society.”<\/p>\n
The father of two said he found the charity about a decade ago when he was researching organisations to donate to which protect rainforests.<\/p>\n
“Through that route, I came across the SOS and I thought ‘that’s brilliant’ because it’s got everything – protecting the rainforest, making a habitat for all the other species, but also this iconic top species that everybody gets the warm feel about as well. So I thought, ‘perfect’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talking about why he was taking on this challenge, McEvoy said: “Orangutans, although they’re such wonderful creatures, they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-764886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}