I spent many years in Indonesia, starting in grass roots animal rights and human justice videography. My final project was to about gibbons, and their plight in the wild, in the face of deforestation driven by palm oil expansion.
A happy, healthy gibbon. Where it should be: in the wild.
You can always spot a healthy gibbon from the condition of its fur and the look in its eyes. Gibbons in small cages never look this healthy.
Our commute to work, up one of the many river arteries that snake towards the heart of Borneo
Our slightly worse for wear jib, and the old 8-bit tape-based Varicam
Me and one of the rescues.
Quite easy to spot this guy as a logger - he has one huge shoulder muscle from the heavy work of weilding a chainsaw. The gibbon is in a sorry state. Took this photo in a palm oil plantation - in an area that had been declared degraded and with no populations of endangered species. Encountered orangutans and even a clouded leopard the same day.
Chanee tries to rescue a gibbon from a wood shop. If you want to support Chanee's work - look up Kalaweit - its a great organisation.
