Ape Trade

Overview

Deep in the forests of south east Asia, the shy and endangered orang-utan is the victim of a cruel and criminal trade. Mothers are slaughtered and their babies sold at great profit in an extensive international black market. Inside Story takes hidden cameras into the shadowy world of the ape traffickers; it unravels a plot to smuggle six of the protected apes to the Soviet Union and exposes a racket which sells wild-caught baby orang-utans through a bogus zoo.