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An animal activist from the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) carries a one year-old male Sumatera Orangutan called Amang in Medan, Indonesia on June 1, 2016. Amang was seized from a resident house in Tamiang, Aceh province. Orangutans are an endangered species divided in two sub-species, the Sumatran and the Bornean orangutan differing slightly both in appearance and behavior. According to conservation groups, the world orang-utan population has declined from 230,000 in the early 1900's to about 45,000 orangutans living in Borneo and Sumatra these days. The current decline rate has accelerated as only a decade ago there were more than 60,000 orangutans, which leads experts to believe that in less than 25 years there could be no orang-utans left in the wild. (Photo by EPA/Dedi Sinuhaji)
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