In the island of Borneo, world's third largest island that shared by Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. In Indonesian part of Borneo, Kalimantan.. A forest fire is not something new because its often happen due to illegal logging and deforestation.
A female orangutan was found dead with spear wounds in her chest after a suspected attack by loggers in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province, a conservation group said today.
Activists from the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation found the body of the 15-year-old orangutan, an endangered species, in Kapuas district on Saturday while trying to relocate primates to a conservation area, according to foundation spokesperson Nico Hermanu.
“It appeared that she was stabbed with a spear through her heart and there were machete wounds in her body,” Hermanu said.
“We suspect she was killed by illegal loggers because it was far from a residential area,” he said.
Since November the foundation has rescued 39 orangutans who lost their natural habitat and were deprived of food after the area was destroyed by last year’s massive forest fires, Hermanu said.
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Conservationists earlier found a severely wounded orangutan in the area, he said.
The orangutan, Asia’s only great ape, lives on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
There are about 45,000-69,000 Bornean orangutans and 7,500 Sumatran orangutans in the wild, according to the conservation group WWF.
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