Starving orangutans forced into villages to look for food as rainforest is destroyed

"The pitiful creatures were captured after going into a village in Sungai Pinyuh, Indonesia, in a desperate search for food.

They were then beaten by villagers so badly one of the primates died before being locked in the tiny cage without food or water.Rainforests cover 60 per cent of Indonesia, but orangutans - which means man of the forest - have seen their habitat cut down at an alarming rate, often to fuel the need for space to grow palm oil crops.
Many adult orangutans are killed by farmers in Indonesia and Borneo to prevent them eating crops as their natural food disappears, leaving helpless orphans to die in the wild."

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