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Monday, February 29, 2016

Indonesia: Fire Deliberately Started, Killed Three Female Orangutans, to Clear the Land for Farming



These are the horrific pictures of three female orangutans who were killed in a land fire in Indonesia.

The orangutans, two, twenty-year-olds and a baby orangutan approximately one year old, were caught in the blaze near a protected forest in Bontang City, East Kalimantan.

The founder of the Centre for Orangutan Protection, Hardi Baktiantoro, claims the forest fire was deliberately started to clear the land for farming.

“It is completely illegal to clear forest land by burning it, and in this case the land that was burnt still had three orangutans living there,” he said.

After investigating the death of the orangutans, a team of officers from the Kutai National Park and the Bontang city police buried the three orangutans.

'The bodies of the orangutans were decayed so we buried them soon after the investigation to prevent them from spreading disease,' the head of the Kutai National Park Office, Erly Sukrismanto, said.

The body of the orangutans were discovered after a resident posted a picture of them on Facebook.

Professional photojournalist Yuli Seperi said, “I saw a friend post a status on Facebook about the deaths so I went the location where the three orangutans were.
The deaths made me extremely upset as orangutans are a huge icon to Indonesia.”

The forest fires are claimed to have started around 2:30 p.m., Saturday, February 20.

The founder of the Centre for Orangutan Protection said, “It is not clear why the three orangutans could not escape the fire as they usually can. Perhaps they were afraid of the humans that surrounded the fragmented forest.

The three dead are believed to be a family of all females, two twenty year olds and one baby orangutan around the age of one.”









Officers evacuate the three Orangutan killed by a forest fire at a protected forest on Belimbing village, Indonesia.



The founder of the Centre for Orangutan Protection, Hardi Baktiantoro, claims the forest fire was deliberately started to clear the land for farming.




A team of officers buried the bodies of the three female orangutans to prevent them from spreading disease.





The body of the orangutans were discovered after a resident posted a picture of them on Facebook.




Professional photographer Yuli Seperi said, “The deaths made me extremely upset as orangutans are a huge icon to Indonesia.”




The charred bodies of the orangutan were found in a protected forest in Bontang.




The founder of the Centre for Orangutan Protection said it is not clear why the three orangutans could not escape the fire as they usually can.





The three dead are believed to be a family of all females, two, twenty-year-olds and one baby orangutan approximately one year old.




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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Heartwarming Story: Dog in Chili Saves Her Nine Puppies From Forest Fire, by Hiding Them in a Hole She Dug


Valparaiso, Chili - A dog, desperately dug a hole to allow her 9-week-old puppies to take shelter beneath a metal container.

As firefighters battled the flames, residents told them they had seen a dog leading the puppies away from the blaze and then bury them under a metal container to protect them from the flames.

The rescuers went in search of the animals and soon found all nine puppies alive and well.

At least one person was killed and thousands more evacuated as the fire spread and was fanned by strong winds.

Officials said they would bring charges against the owner of an illegal landfill site, where the fire is believed to have started.

More than 500 Hectares (1235.526905 Acres) were burned since the blaze started, and at least 19 firefighters have been injured, five of them seriously.

Forest fires are common in Chile at this time of year, and have been particularly savage this year after a hot, dry summer.

In 2014, a fire in Valparaiso killed 13 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes.

Footage shows volunteers digging frantically and rescuing the tiny pups from underneath the metal container where they had been hidden.



Chile evacuates thousands as fire threatens Valparaiso





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