A DUTCH WOMAN CARRIES AN ORANGUTAN AT A ZOO IN JAKARTA, 2001-01-12 (photo)

Ulrike von Mengden, a seventy-year-old Dutch woman carries Rika, a two-year-old orangutan while other orangutans drink milk at Jakarta's Ragunan zoo January 12, 2001 during an orangutan "New Year's party". Some 25 orangutans took part in the party, where they were fed a variety of their favourite foods. But their species has little to celebrate in Indonesia, with both the illegal animal trade and forest fires nearly halving their population over the last decade. An estimated 12,000 orangutans now live in the jungles of Sumatra and Kalimantan, on the Indonesian side of Borneo island. DY/PB