Fw: Indonesia's orangutans, unique wildlife threatened

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NYARU MENTENG, Indonesia (April 22, 2001) - Nabima often has nightmares.

The seven-month-old wakes in the night screaming and crying, says Lone

Droscher-Nielsen, who is looking after the little orangutan on Borneo

Island.

 

At only a few weeks old, Nabima and her mother were shot out of a tree

by tribesmen in Borneo's remote interior. As she lay watching on the

ground, her mother was killed, skinned and eaten.

 

She was bundled up and taken to a nearby town where she was sold for

about $2 as a pet. Not long afterward, a team of Indonesian wildlife

officers - working on a tip by foreign conservationists - rescued her

and took her to a nearby internationally funded orangutan rehabilitation

refuge.

 

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