Green the orangutan lies on a mattress inside a rainforest shack, taking her final breaths after a life full of tragedy.

The female ape — a victim of deforestation to make way for palm oil plantations — can be seen clutching at the pillow, staring sadly into the camera lens.

The heartbreaking footage was shot during the making of a new documentary hoping to bring awareness of the plight of Indonesian orangutans .

Volunteers plucked the squealing Green from the mud in Sumatra as she lay amongst the wreckage of the destroyed forest.

She was taken to an orangutan refuge in Kalimantan and spent her final days lying on a mattress