JAKARTA: The discovery remaining week of two orphaned baby orangutans on Borneo is additional proof that deforestation and unlawful looking are threatening survival of the great apes, an Indonesian conservation crew mentioned on Monday.
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation spokesman Nico Hermanu mentioned the 2 orangutans had been rescued in separate places via a joint crew from the basis and the government's nature conservation agency.
A male 6-Eight months outdated was rescued after being reported by myself on a riverbank close to a village in Central Kalimantan on Friday and a Three-year-old feminine, weighing handiest 5 kilograms (11 pounds), was rescued the day earlier than from a village within the province the place she had been saved via a circle of relatives for many of her lifestyles.
The basis mentioned in each cases it's most probably that the moms had been deliberately killed.
As extra forests are cleared, ``hunters are able to reach prior to now isolated spaces and orangutans,'' it mentioned in a statement. ``We have to take a stand to protect remaining habitat and the seriously endangered flora and fauna which lives inside. Our forests and our orangutan population are shrinking.''
The basis has found 19 baby orangutans to this point this year.
The reddish-brown nice apes, identified for his or her delicate temperament and prime intelligence, are handiest found within the wild at the Indonesian island of Sumatra and on Borneo, which is split amongst Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has declared each the Bornean and Sumatran species of orangutan to be seriously endangered.
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation spokesman Nico Hermanu mentioned the 2 orangutans had been rescued in separate places via a joint crew from the basis and the government's nature conservation agency.
A male 6-Eight months outdated was rescued after being reported by myself on a riverbank close to a village in Central Kalimantan on Friday and a Three-year-old feminine, weighing handiest 5 kilograms (11 pounds), was rescued the day earlier than from a village within the province the place she had been saved via a circle of relatives for many of her lifestyles.
The basis mentioned in each cases it's most probably that the moms had been deliberately killed.
As extra forests are cleared, ``hunters are able to reach prior to now isolated spaces and orangutans,'' it mentioned in a statement. ``We have to take a stand to protect remaining habitat and the seriously endangered flora and fauna which lives inside. Our forests and our orangutan population are shrinking.''
The basis has found 19 baby orangutans to this point this year.
The reddish-brown nice apes, identified for his or her delicate temperament and prime intelligence, are handiest found within the wild at the Indonesian island of Sumatra and on Borneo, which is split amongst Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has declared each the Bornean and Sumatran species of orangutan to be seriously endangered.
Orangutan orphans a sign of habitat destruction
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