A tiny baby orangutan is rescued after being found all alone in a palm oil plantation in West Borneo

News24xx.com -  A tiny baby orangutan is rescued after being found all alone in a palm oil plantation in West Borneo. At that time, a plantation worker named Rahman found the ape while crying in the bushes. Then, he reported the discovery to his manager on Satuday, August 18 2018. 

But they thinking the baby’s mother would return to retrieve him, and they left him. But in the next day, when they went back and discover he was still in the same place, all alone without his mother.

Then, Rahman contacted the International Animal Rescue (IAR) and members of the Natural Resources Conservation Centre (BKSDA) in West Borneo to saved the tiny baby orangutan.

Then, the team  travelled to the oil palm plantation in Tanjung Pasar Village in Ketapang District where Rahman and his co-workers were waiting to hand the baby over. 

The team then named the little ape Rahman, the same name as the man who found him.

The moment when the baby orangutan brought by IAR has melted the heart of many people who saw the moment.

Alan Knight, the IAR CEO, said, "It’s a tragedy to find a baby orangutan without its mother, alone, vulnerable and distressed. Rahman should have been in his mother’s care for the next six or seven years of his life. But, she is nowhere to be found. It’s highly likely that she has been killed as yet another victim of hunters or agricultural workers protecting their crops."

"Thankfully he is in safe hands now and will be given expert treatment and care at our centre which is currently home to 109 rescued orangutans," he added.

The news of his rescue comes as organisations all over the world celebrate International Orangutan Day.

As information, orangutans have 96.4% of human genes and are known to be highly intelligent creatures. 
The Bornean orangutan is now critically endangered with populations in sharp decline due to habitat destruction and illegal hunting. Their populations have declined by 60% since 1950 and are set to fall another 22% by 2025 to an estimated 47,000 apes. 

Many of the issues surrounding orangutan depopulation stem from the poverty faced by people in Indonesia. Many have turned to eating orangutan meat, illegal logging and capturing babies for the pet trade to survive. 

Oil plantations are also seeing the destruction of the natural habitat, reducing the number of fruit trees needed for their survival. 

Indonesians use a slash and burn technique to clear forests, which also causes fires which destroy more forests than the oil plantation needs. 

 

 

 

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