Across Indonesia, companies clear tens of thousands of hectares of forest at a time for palm oil plantations. The orangutans that lived there are forced to leave their homes.

If there’s forest nearby they try to survive there, but often there isn’t anything left. So, they end up in farmland where they raid crops.

That’s where the conflict begins.

Ian Singleton is the director of conservation at Orangutan Haven which gives orangutans — harmed by the illegal wildlife trade, deforestation, human/wildlife conflict and climate change — a new lease on life.

Singleton spoke with me about the brutal pipeline that starts with disappearing forests and ends with a baby orangutan in someone’s living room.

If the orangutans are lucky they get rescued and end up at rescue and conservation centers like Orangutan Haven, but many aren’t that lucky.