Orang-utans in Indonesia

Barely alive a baby Orangutan clutches her dying mother,who slumps dazed,beaten,half drowned and bound.The Animals only Crime was a desperate hunt for foof after their Indonesian Rian forest habitat was raised.When the mother and daughter wandered,starving into a village after a landslide,locals trapped the mother with her baby still clinging to her chest.By the time a team of vetsfrom U.K. International Rescue arrived the villagers had already dragged the mother to a pond where they attempted to drown her.The vets were sadly unable to rescue the mother,who they named Lulu and she died not long after they arrived.But they did manage to save the daughter-in what they describe as one of the most harrowing rescue attempts they have ever undertaken.Lulu was still wet,her lungs full of water and she was already ninty per cent dead.The bond between an Orangutan and her baby is possibly the strongest in the Animal kingdom.The only way you can get a baby away from its mother is to kill her,so it was clear that Lulu was only holding on for her childIt was pitiful to see her desperately clutching her mother for comfort.We did everything possible to save her but sadly Lulu died just a bfew hours later.It was tragic and needless,but she had just become another fictim of the Palm Oil trade as deforestation is what started the landslide.Today the story of her daughter-who has been named Peni ny her rescurers-is revealed in the book Orangutan Rescue,written to highlight the plight of the Apes who are slaughtered and orphaned every year when their habitat is taken away to make way for logging,the Pine industry or mining for coal and bauxite.www.internationalanimalrescue.org/book-orangutan-rescue.