Orangutan Scene In David Attenborough Documentary Leaves Netflix Viewers In Tears

Animals hold a special part in our lives and it doesn’t matter if they share our home or live on the other side of the world, they add something to us that is undeniable. Quite simply, animals enhance the world where we live in more ways than we can possibly imagine. Perhaps that is why we can get so emotional when we see a devastating occurrence where an animal is involved. It may even affect us more than if a human was involved. It may sound extreme, but you know that it’s true.

This is something that many people experienced recently when watching a new David Attenborough documentary on Netflix. There is one particular scene in the video that has brought many people to tears. After all, it shows a very serious and sad scene that involves an orangutan. The Netflix documentary is ‘A Life on Our Planet’, and it is a feature-length documentary by David Attenborough. The segment we are discussing involves deforestation due to the palm oil industry.

Attenborough says the following: “Many of the millions of species in the forests exist in small numbers. Everyone has a critical role to play. Orangutan mothers have to spend 10 years with their young, teaching them which fruits are worth eating.

“Without this training, they would not complete their role in dispersing seeds. The future generations of many tree species would be at risk.”

“Tree diversity is the key to a rainforest. In a single small patch of tropical rainforest there could be 700 different species of tree – as many as there are in the whole of north America.”

“And yet this is what we’ve been turning this dizzying diversity into. A monoculture of oil palm, a habitat that is dead in comparison.”

“There is a double incentive to cut down forests: people benefit from the timber, and then benefit again from farming the land that’s left behind. Which is why we’ve cut down three trillion trees across the world – half of the world’s rainforests have already been cleared.”

Many social media users were emotional after watching the footage. An example is of what one Twitter user wrote in a comment: “Every time I see that clip of the orangutan clinging onto the last tree in a rainforest that’s just been destroyed my heart hurts.”

Another commenter wrote, “If you haven’t watched David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet on Netflix please do. Watching it at 4am tearing up in my room. Already know some changes I’m going to make from now on.”

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