FWD: RM60,000 offer for info on primates’ killers

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Sunday August 24, 2003

RM60,000 offer for info on primates’ killers

By RUBEN SARIO

 

KOTA KINABALU: As public outrage grows over the killing of three orang-utans at

a nature park here on Aug 18, offers totalling RM60,000 have been made as reward

for information leading to the capture of the culprits.

 

The ShangriLa Rasa Ria resort is offering a RM50,000 reward for any information

that would lead to the arrest and conviction of those involved in the killings

of the three orang-utans at the resort & #039;s nature park on Aug 18.

 

In a statement, Rasa Ria general manager Reto Klauser said anyone with such

information should immediately contact the police.

 

He also expressed the resort & #039;s management and staff sadness and shock over

the brutal slayings of the orang-utans which he said were & #147;a very much

loved part of the resort & #039;s community. & #148;

 

The Malaysian owner of the Royal London Circus is offering a RM10,000 reward

for similar information.

 

International Entertainment president Paul Lee is also offering 10% of the

revenue from the circus & #146; last show here on Sept 12 to those who could

provide the tip-off.

 

& #148;I can only hope this reward will hasten the capture of those who

committed this senseless act, & #148; he said yesterday.

 

Lee said if the money offered was not claimed, he would donate it to orang-utan

conservation efforts in the state.

 

The three orang-utans & #150; Mambo, Terry and Marrie & #150; were found dead

with stab wounds at the Shangri-La Rasa Ria resort & #146;s nature park in Tuaran

near here on Aug 18.

 

Another two orang-utans, Tiger and Sherry, were wounded during the attack on

the animals which authorities believe occurred between 1am and 4am.

 

The two injured animals have since been taken to the Sepilok orang-utan

rehabilitation centre in Sandakan for treatment.

 

All five primates had been captured in Sabah & #146;s east coast where their

forest habitat has been gradually shrinking as jungles make way for plantations.

 

In another development, an agreement signed on Friday between the World

Wildlife Fund for Nature and Sawit Kinabalu Bhd, will mean more habitat for

primates still in the wild.

 

Under the memorandum of understanding, the state-owned company would set aside

some 1,260ha of oil palm plantation operated by its subsidiary Borneo Samudera

Sdn Bhd for a conservation and reforestation project in the Kinabatangan area.

 

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