Indonesian rescuers manage to save a mother orangutan whose body was riddled with air rifle pellets.
The mother had also sustained wounds to her right arm and leg, believed to have been inflicted by a sharp tool, and had a number of fractured bones.
Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme vet Yenny Saraswati said Hope underwent a four-hour surgery to repair her broken collarbone."Hopefully Hope can pass this critical period, but she cannot be released to the wild anymore," she said. Meanwhile, the Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry has vowed to"thoroughly investigate" the mistreatment of the orangutans.
A Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme spokesperson said the organisation had treated more than 15 orangutans in the past decade, with around 500 air gun pellets in their bodies.Last year an orangutan died in an Indonesian portion of Borneo after it was shot with more than 130 pellets.
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