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“It’s like breeding racehorses,” said Ron Wallace, the first grower to break one ton in 2012.

In 1991, we had our first breeding pairs and that was really an eye-opener because we thought 'well, this can be successful'.

But multiple experts told AFP there are no captive breeding programmes for the species in Indonesia -- home to all the estimated 800 Tapanuli orangutans left in the world.

"If every lion that was born survived to become an adult and breed, you'd run out of zebra and wildebeest pretty quick."

That breeds an inner feeling of 'over my dead body, this will not happen again, we're going to make sure we win this'.