Orangutan Scene from David Attenborough's documentary gets people teary-eyed

David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet is leaving a major impact on its audience. The movie has a sequence about Orangutans that is making almost everyone get teary-eyed. Read on to know more about the story:

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Orangutan Scene from David Attenborough's Documentary gets people teary-eyed

Through the film, Attenborough elaborates about deforestation and talks about how it has impacted forests across the world. He explains how deforestation affects tree diversity and a number of species around the area. He says how there are over a million species and even though some of them are only existing in a very small number; they still have a significant role.

Further on, he speaks about how mother Orangutans spend over 10 years to teach their young ones about what fruits are worth eating. If they don’t give this training then the young ones will not disperse the seeds that they have to. And if this process lacks, then the future generations of various tree species are at risk.

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Further ahead in the movie, he explains how tree species are extremely important in rainforests and a small single patch of tropical rainforest can consist of as much as 700 varying species. He says that since deforestation has dual benefits for humans as they can first use the timber and then use the land for farming, they go on to do it without a thought and are decreasing the diversity of tree species to just a trail of oil palms. Half of the rainforests around the world have already been cut off and that this is just the latest chapter of deforestation, which has been going on globally for over 60 years. According to him, the deforestation of Borneo have led to the reduction of the Orangutan population by two-thirds.

In one of the sequences of the movie, an orangutan is desperately holding to a tree as he thinks of it as his home. David mentions how this cannot go on forever and it is unsustainable as these damages will pile upon for a long time only for the whole system to go wrong in the long run. This sequence has got audiences in tears and heartbroken. Here is what the Twitterati had to say.  

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