The baby orangutan rescued from a Dombivli apartment last year by the forest department will soon be repatriated to Indonesia. Care for the critically endangered primate is being provided at a rescue and rehabilitation centre in Gujarat, and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has initiated the process of repatriating it to its native land. Orangutans are listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of threatened species.

Sources from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEF&CC) told mid-day that the rescue and rehabilitation centre, which has been taking care of the baby orangutan, wrote to WCCB in the first week of October informing that the baby orangutan under care has recovered, and is stable and fit for transfer.