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Dessert-fathers t1_jb0cf3f wrote

> orangutans are frequently killed in the most brutal ways as agricultural pests

The local population of people are brutally killing orangutans, but pointing that out is politically incorrect. Which is why this fact is buried on that website and why my post is being downvoted.

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Stanazolmao t1_jb2v7w8 wrote

I mean, unless you somehow imply the local population is killing the orangutans because of their race, how would anyone even accuse you of racism? Everyone knows that people who live in an area are the local population

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Dessert-fathers t1_jb3lgkx wrote

>Everyone knows that people who live in an area are the local population

Apparently not, that's what sparked this whole side-thread; someone asked "how they were dying" and couldn't find it readily until they dug and found that quote.

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Stanazolmao t1_jb3tjzt wrote

I think the question was more, are they intentionally being killed or are they dying as a result of habitat destruction

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Dessert-fathers t1_jb4sezu wrote

Right, he wanted to know how they were dying since the palm trees themselves weren't killing them. Turns out it's a combo of habitat loss and being killed hacked apart with machetes by the Indigenous population. And now we know the rest of the story.

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Dessert-fathers t1_jb5l69v wrote

"It's common practice to burn the land before developing a palm oil plantation"

"Many of those that escaped the fires ended up on plantations and in villages-- desperatelylooking for food and protection from the fires. Starving, tired, wounded or sick, many became easy prey for poachers who saw an opportunity to make easy money selling the meatfrom the adults and putting the babies up for sale on the black market. Mothers were butchered and their babies were plucked off their dead and dying bodies in order to be sold into the illegal pet trade."

https://redapes.org/about-orangutans/orangutan-crisis/

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