But the orangutan would not let them have their way without putting up a fight.

While another tweeted: When the truck hit the orangutan out of the tree I died inside. In a scene reminiscent […] According to Mirror, illegal loggers were trying to destroy the primate's home - the jungle. The video was captured in 2013, but it was recently released to raise awareness about the harm of logging forest trees to the orangutan habitat. The desperate animal can be seen attempting to stop the excavator with his bare hands in the video shared on social media by the International Animal Rescue (IAR). 1: In the film an orangutan bounds along a felled tree trunk towards a digger bucket in a Borneo forest According to Sir David, climate change, is the 'greatest threat' to … That #orangutan fighting the digger was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen. On Words Environment Day this non-profit organization shared a shocking video showing a helpless orangutan who tried to fight against the powerful digger which has already claimed his home. A brave Bornean orangutan was captured on video fighting off a machine digger in an attempt to save his home from Indonesion loggers. This brave orangutan was standing up and fighting to protect his home and family. One of the most talked-about programmes of the past week – a primetime documentary on BBC1 – featured two people many seem to regard as living saints. This orangutan’s desperate attempt to defend its home from a digger shows the heartbreaking reality of deforestation in Borneo. Advert. In a heartbreaking clip, an orangutan was seen desperately attempting to fight off a bulldozer demolishing its home. What David Attenborough told BBC viewers about this raging orangutan fighting a digger is only part of the truth… and that’s just one of the flaws in the great naturalist’s ‘alarmist’ new documentary, writes DAVID ROSE.