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Tamed apes face uncertain future back in wild

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Young orangutans are wheeled to their sleeping quarters at Lone Droscher-Nielsen’s clinic at Palangkaraya, Indonesia.

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Over the past decade, Lone Droscher-Nielsen, a former Scandinavian Airlines Systems flight attendant, has saved nearly 600 orphaned orangutans in Borneo from almost certain death.


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This article was published November 22, 2009 at 6:06 a.m.

Front Section, Pages 10 on 11/22/2009

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