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By Helen BriggsBBC Environment correspondent 17 May 2020 Image copyrightBBC/NHUImage captionAn orphan orangutan climbs high in the treetops with his caregiverWhile much of the world is in lockdown, youngsters in one very unusual classroom are still having lessons.At a forest school in Borneo, baby orangutans learn tree-climbing skills from their human surrogate parents.The orphans spend 12 hours a day in the forest, preparing for a new life in the wild.The orangutans were filmed and photographed before coronavirus struck, for the TV series Primates, on BBC One.With human contact routinely kept to a minimum, life goes on much as before for the animals, says Dr Signe Preuschoft, leader of ape programmes for the charity Four Paws, which runs the rehabilitation centre in East Kalimantan. As a precaution, the staff now have temperature checks, wear facemasks and change into uniforms on site.The pandemic has disrupted many conservation programmes around the world but Dr Preuschoft says it also…