Orangutan rescued after forestry butchered by illegal gold miners
This is the moment an endangered orangutan was rescued from its habitat after its forestry had been butchered by illegal gold mining and logging.Footage shows the distressed orangutan sitting amongst the debris of his former home before rescue teams anaesthetise him with a dart gun. Workers can then be seen lifting the animal into a net before carting him on the back of a rescue van. The 20-year-old male orangutan is then released to a confined safe haven after it had spent the last month disorientated.The animal - named Inap by rescue teams - was first spotted by a villager last month after it was seen meandering in his garden in Ketapang, Indonesia. Despite efforts to lure Inap back into the forest, the orangutan would soon return to villagers' gardens in search of food having been left distressed by the destruction his home. Villagers attempted to capture the troubled orangutan with rope which had cut and blistered his hands, causing further distress. Members of International Animal Rescue (IAR) Ondonesia and the Wildlife Rescue Unit (WRU) for the Conservation of Natural Resources (BKSDA) launched an operation to rescue Inap, using a dart to anaesthetise before capturing him. The footage was taken on 24 January 2020. Satata Noor, HEad of the BKSDA said: "Yet again we have a case of human/wildlife conflict.
When will we resolve this? "It is time for the government and partners to take concrete steps.
Comprehensive policies, awareness and innovative solutions must start now!"Alan Knight OBE, IAR Chief Executive added: "I heartily endorse the words of Sadtata Noor. "We are running out of time to save the orangutan and if no positive action is taken to tackle the threats to the species' survival, at the current rate of population decline, before too long it will disappear forever - and magnificent male orangutans like Inap will become no more than a distant memory. "And what a terrible tragedy that would be for us all."
This is the moment an endangered orangutan was rescued from its habitat after its forestry had been butchered by illegal gold mining and logging.Footage shows the distressed orangutan sitting amongst the debris of his former home before rescue teams anaesthetise him with a dart gun.
Workers can then be seen lifting the animal into a net before carting him on the back of a rescue van.
The 20-year-old male orangutan is then released to a confined safe haven after it had spent the last month disorientated.The animal - named Inap by rescue teams - was first spotted by a villager last month after it was seen meandering in his garden in Ketapang, Indonesia.
Despite efforts to lure Inap back into the forest, the orangutan would soon return to villagers' gardens in search of food having been left distressed by the destruction his home.
Villagers attempted to capture the troubled orangutan with rope which had cut and blistered his hands, causing further distress.
Members of International Animal Rescue (IAR) Ondonesia and the Wildlife Rescue Unit (WRU) for the Conservation of Natural Resources (BKSDA) launched an operation to rescue Inap, using a dart to anaesthetise before capturing him.
The footage was taken on 24 January 2020.
Satata Noor, HEad of the BKSDA said: "Yet again we have a case of human/wildlife conflict.
When will we resolve this?
"It is time for the government and partners to take concrete steps.
Comprehensive policies, awareness and innovative solutions must start now!"Alan Knight OBE, IAR Chief Executive added: "I heartily endorse the words of Sadtata Noor.
"We are running out of time to save the orangutan and if no positive action is taken to tackle the threats to the species' survival, at the current rate of population decline, before too long it will disappear forever - and magnificent male orangutans like Inap will become no more than a distant memory.
"And what a terrible tragedy that would be for us all."
