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Orangutan Tries To Fight Against The Bulldozer That Is Destroying His Home

An orangutan hops atop a big log and furiously attempts to stop the bulldozer from grabbing the pile of chopped trees with his hands. The animal falls into the forest of trees that formerly served as its home after attempting to hold onto the metal but failing to do so. Despite the rain, he shivers as he tries to climb back up.

Sadly, the entire forest had been leveled around him.

A part of the Sungai Putri Forest, a recognized refuge for critically endangered Bornean orangutans, was recently destroyed by construction workers in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, and this horrific incident was recorded on camera.

Because International Animal Rescue (IAR) was nearby, the orangutan was saved and sent to a far-off, safe section of the jungle. But their precarious situation demonstrates exactly how much these creatures have been forced into human hands.

One of the few remaining habitats for Borneo’s wild orangutans, Sungai Putri Forest, is in grave danger from growing palm oil plantations and other development initiatives.

Greenpeace Indonesia has conducted an investigation that found at least six illegal logging communities within or close to this forest. Even in locations where male orangutans have constructed nests to rear their young, logging is primarily done at night.

Since the 1970s, logging activities like these have caused more than half of the native habitats of Bornean orangutans to disappear. Many run the possibility of being shot if they try to go back home again, in addition to having their homes destroyed.

IAR program director in Indonesia, Karmele Llano Sánchez, issued the following statement:

We are in a crucial period for Bornean orangutans, who have one of the largest populations in the world in Sungai Putri. They cannot live without woods like this.