One of my photos has been selected for the finals of the wildlife photographer of the year 2010 competition in the One Earth award category. The image is of a Sumatran orangutan in the quarantine centre near Medan, N Sumatra. I was trying to capture the difference in the eyes of a wild and captured orangutan. This adult male Sumatran orangutan looks depressed (and probably is) as it's a terrible sight seeing one in cage. However there is hope for this orangutan as the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) have managed to re-release many of the orangutans that end up in the quarantine centre back to the wild.
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