Saving Planet Earth — Season 1, Episode 10: Nick Knowles: Saving Orangutans

Episode synopsis

As the rainforests of Borneo are being cut down to make room for palm oil plantations, the orangutans that call this place home are threatened. Nick Knowles goes to the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation to see how homeless and orphaned orangutans are being taken care of and learns what can be done to save this animal.

About Saving Planet Earth

Saving Planet Earth is a season of nature documentaries with a conservation theme, screened on BBC Television in 2007 to mark the 50th anniversary of its specialist factual department, the BBC Natural History Unit. The series featured films contributed by a number of celebrities on the plight of various endangered species, and coincided with the launch of the BBC Wildlife Fund, a charitable organisation which distributes money to conservation projects around the world. The television series culminated in a live fundraising telethon on BBC Two, hosted by Alan Titchmarsh, which raised over £1 million for the charity. The BBC broadcast a second live telethon in 2010. Wild Night In was presented by Kate Humble, Chris Packham and Martin Hughes-Games and featured conservation projects which had benefited from the support of the BBC Wildlife Fund. This helped to raise a further £1 million.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Sharing Planet Earth
• E2Will Young: Saving Gorrillas
• E3Fiona Bruce: Saving Tigers
• E4Edith Bowman: Saving Crocodiles
• E5Carol Thatcher: Saving Albatross
• E6Phil Tufnell: Saving Rhinos
• E7Graham Norton: Saving Wolves
• E8Jack Osbourne: Saving Elephants
• E9Tom Conti: Saving Wildcats
• E11Nick Knowles: Saving Orang-Utans
• E12Finale
• E13Running Wild