Auckland Zoo's orangutans are on the move

From Afternoons, 1:33 pm on 21 November 2017

Auckland Zoo's three orangutans are moving to Christchurch's Orana Wildlife Park this week.

Charlie, Melur and Wanita are leaving the zoo during the middle of the night on Thursday and will arrive in Christchurch in the morning.

They will be in Christchurch for two years while Auckland Zoo rebuilds the area the orangutans lived in into a new Southeast Asian preccinct that will include sumatran tigers, otters and siamang gibbons.

Amy Robbins is the zoo's primate team leader and joins Jesse to talk about the move and some of the work she's been doing in Sumatra around the care of orangutans there.