An 18 year-old female orangutan, Jekki, approaches a clearing carrying her 4-month old baby June 12, 2009 in Sumatra's Gunung Leuser National Park. The orang-hutan, a Malay word for "person of the forest," often live up to 30-40 years but females may only reproduce 3-4 times in a lifetime.

The tree dwelling Indonesian orangutans have lost 75% of their forest habitat to logging and oil palm plantations.

An 18 year-old female orangutan approaches a clearing carrying her 4-month old baby June 12, 2009 in Sumatra's Gunung Leuser National Forest. An estimated 6,600 orangutans live in pockets of Indonesia's Sumatran forests.

A virgin rainforest lies next to large tracts of primary forests cleared to plant oil palm trees June 11, 2009 in Tripa, Aceh province, Indonesia. Orangutans and other species of rare wildlife have lost 75% of their primary forest home to logging and fires set to clear land for oil palm plantations.

Virgin rainforest was cleared to plant oil palm trees which will bare fruit in 3-4 years. Palm oil is used in products from chocolate bars to breakfast cereals and shampoos to cosmetics. Indonesia and Malaysia are the world's largest palm oil producers.

Rows of oil palm trees grow on land of a corporate palm oil manufacturer June 10, 2009 in Nagan Raya, Aceh province, Indonesia. Threatened orangutans and other rare species of wildlife live in the rainforest tracts now being cleared.

Bunches of oil palm fruit are unloaded at a processing plant June 12, 2009 in Nagan Raya, Aceh province, Indonesia. The oil retrieved comes from crushing the palm kernels: 100 kgs of palm fruit results in 25 kgs of oil.

A man-made drainage ditch destroys a peat swamp as it pulls off sustaining water for a future oil palm plantation June 11, 2009 in Tripa, Aceh province, Indonesia. Threatened orangutans and other rare species of wildlife live in the rainforest tracts now being cleared.

A local farmer removes weeds on land with over 15,000 oil palm seedlings for a pilot project sponsored by Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari (YEL), an Indonesian conservation group, June 8, 2009 in Aceh province, Indonesia. YEL's concept is to halt the cutting of virgin rainforest land and the draining of valuable peat swamp tracts by farming land already cleared.

Men of Kuala Seumayan village paddle their wooden fishing boat along the Seumayan River June 9, 2009 in Aceh province, Indonesia. Local villagers claim illegal logging and draining the nearby Tripa peat swamps by palm oil manufacturers Astro Agra Lestari and Kallista Alam is rapidly shrinking their land and access to river fishing.

Fires burn off logged virgin rainforest spewing clouds of white smoke across tracts cleared to plant oil palm trees June 11, 2009 in Tripa, Aceh province, Indonesia. Most of the world's 50,000 orangutans live in Indonesia and Malaysia, where rain forests are logged and replaced by oil palm plantations.

A forestry researcher stands in dense vegetation in a protected Suaq Balimbing peat swamp June 7, 2009 in southern Aceh province, Indonesia. The peat swamp holds one of the remaining orangutan populations now threatened by illegal logging and expanding oil palm plantations in Aceh province. Rare species of wildlife including the clouded leopard, Sumatran tiger and rhinoceros live in the rain forest tracts now being cleared.