WEST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA — A heartbreaking video shows an orangutan in Indonesia desperately trying to stop humans from destroying its home.<br /><br />The Independent reports that the footage was filmed in 2013 in Borneo's West Kalimantan, but only recently uploaded to Facebook by International Animal Rescue.<br /><br />In the video, the orangutan can be seen frantically running across a fallen tree trunk toward a large excavator. It grabs at the excavator bucket with its bare hands, seemingly in an attempt to stop it from wreaking more havoc in the jungle.<br /><br />When the machine moves, the animal fails to hang on, and instead tumbles off the trunk and onto the ground.<br /><br />Two men from the animal charity can be seen running after the distressed primate, and appear to shoot it with a tranquilizer dart. The organization claims on their post that they managed to rescue the poor animal and bring it to safety.<br /><br />Sadly, more and more habitats in Indonesia are being destroyed by loggers, leading to death and starvation in the orangutan population.<br /><br />Unless we stop the madness and start rebuilding, our future will look much like Borneo's forests: gone.
