Odisha Forest Department

Force in Play

As of September 2026: Conducted the rescue; running the on-ground investigation

Five baby orangutans were found Tuesday morning in a coastal casuarina forest in Odisha, India. They were all under a year old, calm enough to be handled by hand, and thousands of kilometers from home — orangutans exist in the wild only on the Indonesian and Malaysian islands of Borneo and Sumatra.

Updated Sep 9