Orangutans to have special screening of 'Born to be Wild' One of the women, Daphne M Sheldrick, has spent a lifetime in Kenya caring for elephants whose mothers were poached for their tusks. The other, Canadian Birute Mary Galdikas, who arrived in Indonesia in the 1970s, has more than 300 young orangutans at her care center just outside Tanjung Puting National Park. Many of their mothers were killed when they strayed into agricultural plantations in search of food. Others have been hunted by villagers as pests or, occasionally, for their meat. Ms Galdikas is glad the movie, which wowed audiences last year in the United States, finally made its way here. "It helps raise awareness," said the 65-year-old primatologist. The average person in Indonesia still doesn't yet understand the orangutan is a close relative and that they are a protected species and on the verge of extinction. Indonesia - home to 90 per cent of the orangutans left in the wild - has lost half of its rain forests in the last half century in its rush to supply the world with timber, pulp, paper and, more recently, palm oil. The remaining 50,000 to 60,000 live in scattered, degraded forests, putting them in frequent, and often deadly, conflict with humans.