An endangered orangutan was shot 74 times. She’s blind, but survived — her baby did not.
Veterinarians and volunteers at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program in Indonesia tend to a female orangutan they named Hope after conducting a surgery for infections and to fix broken bones on March 17. By Angela Fritz Angela Fritz Extreme weather, natural disasters, climate change Email Bio Follow March 18 at 9:27 PM She was probably lounging in the treetops, where Sumatran orangutans spend almost all of their time, with her month-old baby in tow. She might have been breast-feeding.
A week later, villagers stumbled upon the orangutan and the critically malnourished baby on a farm in Sumatra, Indonesia, in Aceh province. Volunteers transported the little family to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program, where specialized veterinarians carefully removed some bullets from the adult and performed surgery on her broken bones, according to the organization’s Facebook page.
Two other organizations played a role in getting Hope and her baby to the conservation program, according to their Facebook pages: the Balai Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam, a nature conservancy in Indonesia, which was first contacted by the villagers who found the orangutans, and the Orangutan Information Center, which transported them to the conservation program.
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