Stanazolmao t1_jb3tjzt wrote
Reply to comment by Dessert-fathers in Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by BigJimNorton
I think the question was more, are they intentionally being killed or are they dying as a result of habitat destruction
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.
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."
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