A 30-year-old orangutan with multiple gunshot wound, was last Sunday found in Aceh, Indonesia after the locals sounded the alarm the authorities.
When orangutanghonan was found, she was with her kid who was only a month old. The two were then on a lokalinvånares land.
the Female and the chick were recovered immediately by the civil servants from the country's naturskyddsmyndighet, but the chick later died due to malnutrition, writes the Daily Mail. The female had then the anträffades been shot at 74 times with a shot from an airgun.
– the Orangutans came to the villagers ' plantation. They were seen as a threat by plantation owners who then tried to chase away the animals, " says Sapto Aji Prabowo, head of the authority for nature conservation in Indonesia.
After a week starting now the orangutan, which has received the name Hope, to recover, to notify the authority.
Orangutans are endangered and according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature are only around 100,000 left in the world.