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Subscribe to RSSFirst, their forest is cut down. Then when the hungry orangutans come searching for food in the village they are beaten?
Ferry Latif / Reuters
Orangutans are tied to the ground as villagers look on in Sungai Pinyuh, Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, November 22, 2010. The primates were captured as they came to the village to look for food and were beaten, resulting to the death of one orangutan, according to a villager. Rainforests cover 60 percent of Indonesia, and yet the country is one of the world's leading emitters of the greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. The reason is that Indonesia also has one of the planet's fastest rates of deforestation. Deforestation is destroying the natural habitats of the primate and driving them out of forests.
Deforestation in Indonesia takes a toll on wildlife
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This is sickening to me. The real animals are the people.......
AGREED! These poor animals are suffering due to human greed. So terribly sad.
Pictures like this are very difficult to see but we need these to be posted so people can see what is happening to Gods beautiful creatures.
Humans are killing our earth in more ways then one. Humans are full of GREED. How will our actions be explained to future generations ?.....Not in a good way I am sorry to say.
I am an animal lover and I hate to see any animals abused in anyway.
I say the next hungry person that wonders the streets of that city should be beaten and put on display what a f***ed disregard of life, this make me sick those people standing around looking make me sick ... remember how you got here, some where in you life line you too were once a hungry ape!!! What a f***ed country that would allow that. I am truly crying for those animals and sicked and repulsed at those so called human's (humane?) get it.
i PRAY for a real 2012 to wipe us out sometimes.
Let's take action and we can do it by writing to the president of the Republic of Indonesia and the Indonesian Embassy in Washington D.C. The best way to make change of any kind is to speak out against injustices and this is as big as they come. I hope you can open the two links below. If not, please just search for the "Republic of Indonesia" and for "Indonesian Embassy Washington D.C.". On both sites you will find a contact link. Let's take direct action! thanks,
www.indonesia.go.id/en/
www.embassyofindonesia.org/
Done- now if more people would write to these sick bas***ds something might happen!
susan-358055... Thank you for that information...I also added it to my face-book page along with the picture.
indonesia people call their self human not in this life time their a sorry bunch.
This just shows how cruel the human being can be to its fellow animals. We take away their habitat and everything they know and when they come looking for food we beat and kill them. I would hate to see what would happen if someone did that to a fellow human being, oh wait thats not the same!
i feeel terrible for those passive/ good nature animals...its ashame that the indonesian government does not intervene and protect those prescious animals.....pobresitos......my heart goes out for the apes
So the photographer just took a picture? Obviously he was not a villager just stood by to witness them in a cage for a good story. It should say in the story whether anything was done to save the orangutans in the cage. They are beautiful and so endangered. It is said that people continue to burn the land the animals need to survive and then are surprised to see they are hungry and dying.
Please do an update on this to let us know the fate of these little guys!!!
Thank you! Yes, please do an update. I cannot even believe what I am looking at. What is wrong with these people? They, themselves are lower than any animal they have in a cage. This is a disgusting example of human intolerance for the beauty and vulnerability of wild animals. Look how sad they are. They cannot even raise their head. Their pride has been tqaken away. Horrible!
Hi Paddleboard,
I'm Feri Latief, the photographer. I was there and joint to the rescue team from International Animal Rescue. Together we tried to save orangutan. But unfortunately the local government did not respond to the incident seriously.
For your information, we bring the orangutans were to be treated. But he died there. You can check the story
http://www.vhrmedia.com/2010/potret.php?.e=389&.file=file1&.caption=caption1#p3891
Regards,
Feri Latief
www.matakumatamu.multiply.com
Indonesia suffers from a debilitating condition- religion. They want to be modern like Japan but have no sense of the value of their natural gifts. They only know how to exploit. Not unlike early America.
Early America??? We STILL suffer from the debilitating sicknesses of religion and greed. Oil spills that we can't control yet we keep on drilling. Who needs that forest, gotta have another shopping mall, bank or church. How dare that mountain lion, bear, alligator etc. come into MY backyard. Gotta have a green lawn even in an Arizona desert subdivision. Who cares about the dried up river downstream or the toxic runoff into our water. America led by its religious nuts has and continues to destroy this planet piece by piece all so we can have a vacation home, an extra car in the garage, another computer, a 20th pair of shoes, and lest we forget, tropical Indonesian fruits on our breakfast cereal.
very sad how cruel man is.
Sad :(
@cleareye- i think you meant to say current America.
Wrong. We have every right to complain and be concerned about injustices in other countries, no matter what condition our own is in. My circle of compassion extends to all. We have a right and a duty to fight injustice in all its forms no matter where it may occur.
Ya everyone cries about this stuff, but here in America deforestation is still going on, just saw it the other day, here in illinois. Another woodland cut down so some farmer can plant more corn and beans. So, we don't need to look overseas, for this kind of stuff. Clean up your own act, before you complain about some other country, doing what we are still doing.
The farmer's to blame? Have you looked at the rate at which suburbia is eating up farm land? It's a domino effect, the city eats the suburb, the suburb eats the farm, the farm is left to take the blame for deforestation. Nice logic. 'Some farmer' is trying to make a living with what's left.
This is so sad. The bigger guy looks so dejected with his hands and feet tied.
It's a sad example of how other cultures view animals and their co-existence with humans. In some parts of the world, people eat dogs, but of course we wouldn't think of that here in the US. It's easy to feel bad for these creatures, but unfortunately they were born in the wrong part of the world. Same goes for humans born here in the US rather than Indonesia. Sorry it's cold, but true.
There was just a report of a labrador/shepherd mix puppy found in a dumpster in the US, still alive but with its ears cut off. Don't make the mistake of thinking that animals are only treated poorly in OTHER parts of the world!
This is WAY WAY to graphic. There should have been a warning page.
traci-2752302.....Sorry I disagree regarding a warning page....no animals ever get a warning that humans are coming to their homes and forest to destroy them.
Look at the picture and see what our fellow humans are doing.
Absolutely Carin C. A "warning page"???? So one does not have to see the evil that surrounds us? Grow up, Traci. FACE reality; don't hide from it. The picture makes me tearful, BUT informed. I am sure that you are distressed by it, and should be.
it's called reality
This commentor susan-358055 has given us a solution to try and make a difference. I have sent a letter and will paste this picture with the site on my face-book page, in hopes that everyone will also send a letter. It takes less then 5 minutes to type your distaste of the treatment to these beautiful creatures.
This photo is sickening sad. Look at the eyes of these animals. They are people with fur, they have feelings, emotions, and feel pain. That cage should be used for some of the animals roaming the streets of our city's, that don't have feelings, emotions, or feel pain. How would you feel to be in that cage, restrained with ropes, and cables.? This is progress?
It doesn't help that the people there aren't much more intelligent than the orangutans they are destroying.
The orangutans are more intelligent then those scum.
This photo is way way to graphic. There should have been a warning page.
stop your whining, it takes graphic images before people stand up and do anything. i suppose you would just rather be ignorant to the plight of these animals and live in your rosy world. comment on the tragedy here or be quiet.
Life is a web, not a ladder. This act of destruction tears at the whole system. Human beings are the most capricious, hateful, and destructive force on the planet, and as far as we know, the universe. My heart is broken over the fate of those poor animals.
I agree Patty - humans are supposedly the most intelligent animals, but you'd be hard pressed to prove that to me. We're consuming the entire planet without regard for our fellow inhabitants; driving many species to extinction!
Can't anyon do anything to help them? This is just so sad!
Yes.. these problems occur within our own country; however, they shouldnt be happening anywhere. Its wrong regardless to beat any animal under any circumstance. Thats the problem with society today..people only care for themselves. Its sickening.
People just make me sick; I sick for these poor, defenseless animals that we take away their homes, their land, their food, the beat them to death because they are hungry.
As stated above, did any HUMAN even try to help these poor animals?
People are just disgusting...........
Deforestation happens everywhere, America has alot of replanting efforts to replace alot of the lumbered trees. However we cannot force farmers to replant the trees they cut down to make way for crops. I agree kflann that yes we need to look local before going international but that doesn't mean we have to be insensitive to these situations in other areas of the world. Fact of the matter is that we have to lead by example and help others achieve the same to really make a difference if the world is to survive this kind of crap.
This makes me sick! They are beautiful creatures... look at him just titting there with so many ropes around each limb. What are they thinking? I hope they are rescued.
Wow, this is sad. We as humans are savages, these poor guys never did anything to harm us yet we continue to destroy and harm them. Shame on you Indonesia, shame on our world.
OMG...how horrifying. Those poor things. Why do humans have to be so cruel? Am I missing something or they just tied them up for coming around looking for food? WTF?
May they be free of their bondage very soon.
This is horrible... It's so very sad I am almost in tears.... How can you possibly blame the animals when it is the humans (or more specifically SUB-humans) who are taking everything away from them and forcing them into the villages and towns while they are only trying to find a way to survive???? I'm not a big fan of primates but for crying out loud - animals - ALL animals - have the same emotions and feelings that WE DO..... They bleed the same color, they feel hunger, fear, confusion, joy, loss - everything that WE do including the pain of being beaten (and beaten to death)..... PLEASE stop this. Somebody. ANYbody......
Whoever is hurting those animals should be killed.