The rescue team sedated the young male, freed him from the snare and gave him fluids for severe dehydration before transporting him back to IAR’s clinic in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
The trap snatched the animal's right hand, which will be amputated after the animal tried to gnaw its hand off, says the charity.
The orangutan was named Pelangsi after the area of forest in the Ketapang region where he was found, reports Metro.
The latest incident highlights how palm oil production (along with wood and paper) is killing off the habitat of the orangutan by clearing forest in order to make more room to grow the crop.
"Pelangsi’s story is a graphic illustration of the fate of countless orangutans that are left homeless and hungry when the forest is cut down," IAR's Karmele Llano Sanchez said in a press release.
The site of the entrapment isn't coincidental. According to IAR, the land is home to a large number of orangutans that have fled from the new palm oil plantation that has been created next to it by palm oil company PT KAL (Kayung Agro Lestari) from Austindo Nusantara Jaya Group.
Palm oil is a product widely used in cosmetics and processed food, including Girl Scout cookies.
Take a look at some graphic photos from the rescue earlier this week.
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An orangutan trapped in a snare for ten days was rescued by International Animal Rescue (IAR) Thursday.
The rescue team sedated the young male, freed him from the snare and ...
An orangutan trapped in a snare for ten days was rescued by International Animal Rescue (IAR) Thursday.
The rescue team sedated the young male, freed him from the snare and ...
This is so sad. I wonder if this is an orangutan I have met. I have been to Borneo (Kalimatan) and have seen firsthand the destruction palm oil plantations impose on orangutans. There are over 300 orphaned baby orangutans in Orangutan Foundation International's care center. It was built for about 100.
Through OFI, I have purchased several acres of rainforest in Borneo, I have adopted orangutan orphans, and I have taken the OFI ecotour. You can too:
I am very relieved that he was rescued. I have had close encounters with all of the great apes and, for me, looking into the eyes of an orangutan was more like looking into the eyes of a close relative than the other apes.
GirlUsingBrain: This is so sad. I wonder if this is an
This is how it seems, but most likely, it was a native setting a trap for bushmeat. Poverty is the norm in Indonesia and many families do not have enough to eat.
GirlUsingBrain: This is how it seems, but most likely, it was
Snares should be illegal....and the law should be strictly enforced. An animal caught in one and having to literally gnaw its hand off is worse than torture.... People who put out snares should have to endure the experience....maybe just maybe they would think twice before subjecting an animal to such barbarism. Reading this article made me so mad....as I'm sure it does for a lot of people. If I live to be a hundred I'll never understand how people can be so cold-hearted and cruel.
david25luvit: Snares should be illegal....and the law should be strictly enforced.
I could weep when I read this appallingly sad story. Eight elephants poisoned in Tanzania the other day, tusks hacked off, more rhinos killed in Kenya and South Africa, in the north-west an orca dead of wounds suffered during a naval exercise. What the hell is wrong with us? We are incapable of looking beyond our own selfish deeds! I'm glad I will be gone in a few more years but I am ashamed that the legacy we leave our children and grand- children is one of a degraded planet and poisoned atmosphere. Mankind is the true mindless animal!
Richard_Wilford: I could weep when I read this appallingly sad story.
Mr. George Santosa Tahija is President Director of Austindo Nusantara Jaya Group.
Mr. Tahija contributes to education, economic, environmental, and social development in Indonesia through his participation in various organizations including: the Plenary Committee of the Trisakti University Foundation, the founding board of PSKD Mandiri School, Advisory Board of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Indonesia Chapter
Surely as a member of the Advisory Board of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Indonesia Chapter he would be interested in what's happening right next door to one of his plantations... Perhaps he doesn't already know. And... maybe he could have tours arranged so the members of the PSKD Mandiri School can see the nice, cute animals having fun of hanging in a trap for days... and worse.
Better yet, we could just send the Mandiri School this article and let them see for themselves. www.pskd-mandiri.sch.id/
palm oil is in everything, i buy cheez-its for my kids, after i heard about palm oil i checked labels, and was shocked to see it in almost everything i buy, even the cheez-its, so i will be looking for other things that do not have palm oil, but will surely be difficult, it doesn't seem like a necessary ingredient that can't be substituted with something else. poor animals. humans are an invasive species, most creatures live with the land not take it and destroy it.
ravenwing1: palm oil is in everything, i buy cheez-its for my
It IS the substitute for something else... almost everything else.
It has become the substitute due to the simple fact that it's cheaper.
Cheaper cost equals more profit. Doesn't have anything to do with anything beneficial, or healthy, or anything else. It's cheaper, so they make more money, and they don't care what on earth they hurt, or damage, or destroy to get it.
After all they're just people... Corporations ARE people, you know. Ask the five wise men.
beadyi: It IS the substitute for something else... almost everything else.
Seeing the eyes of the Orangutan tells us that there is a thought process there. Just as there is in all of Gods creatures. Did any of you see the video of a turtle helping to turn over another turtle who'd somehow gotten rolled onto it's very rounded back and couldn't get upright? The other turtle actually turned him over. Another thing - Minnesota just approved the trapping of the Wolf there. I feel trapping in that manner, that they will do, is horrible. If the farmers are having such a problem with the Wolf, get some donkeys. A donkey will stamp a Coyote or Wolf to death. Very good deterent to predators. Trapping by breaking a leg in a steel trap is wrong and horrible.
Erin194808: Seeing the eyes of the Orangutan tells us that there
We humans are a plague to this planet! Our species has caused so much destruction and terror to the environment to satisfy our unending thirst for more...thankfully this Orang was saved but can never be returned to it's home in the forest...we truly are an evolutionary experiment gone bad!!!
roninroshi: We humans are a plague to this planet! Our species
yea, humans.. what a great bunch... thankfully there are a few of us who don't fit into and refuse to be swallowed by the mass virus... like these remarkable people helping this orangutan
they are angels
mikeyaz17: yea, humans.. what a great bunch... thankfully there are a
You would not believe how many US companies are involved with the devastation of the rainforests, ergo killing of orangs in Indonesia. Of course the koch bros are (wood), along with Citibank and a number of other well known American companies.
Many products used in cosmetics come from the rainforests and I think people need to realize at what cost that cosmetic is getting made. Even "disturbing" the rainforest is very bad much less distroying it is devistating to all the many species living there. The next time you hear "rainforest" you need to take note, and write an email to that company. Take a stand against the rainforest being disturbed for any reason.
Erin194808: Many products used in cosmetics come from the rainforests and
Dear HUMANS, FIRST think of re-locating us, or finding ANOTHER "kind" remedy....BEFORE DESTROYING OUR WORLD, and giving us a SLOW and PAINFUL DEATH. -The Animals.
Italianbrian: Dear HUMANS, FIRST think of re-locating us, or finding ANOTHER
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