Lone Orangutan Fights Back In A Heartbreaking Video As Loggers Destroy His Home
More than 2,5 million acres of Indonesian rainforest are lost every year. This senseless deforestation leaves many wild animals without a home. Animals, such as orangutans, suffer from logging the most. Their population has more than halved in the past 16 years. Non-profit organization International Animal Rescue are working very hard to save their plummeting community and other animals’ habitats.
On Words Environment Day this non-profit organization shared a shocking video showing a helpless orangutan who tried to fight against the powerful digger which has already claimed his home. The video was captured in 2013, but it was recently released to raise awareness about the harm of logging forest trees to the orangutan habitat. The animals aren’t the only ones suffering from deforestation as it also affects climate change and is one of the global warming causes.
The video went viral with more than 10,000 shares and around 1mln views. International Animal Rescue teams encouraged the viewers to ‘plant a tree’ by donating.
Watch the heartbreaking video below and join the conversation about the impact of deforestation in the comments.
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More than 2,5 million acres of Indonesian rainforest are lost every year
Image credits: International Animal Rescue
This senseless deforestation leaves many animals without a home
Image credits: International Animal Rescue
Non-profit organization International Animal Rescue are working to save the plummeting population of orangutans
On Word Environment Day they shared a video showing a helpless orangutan trying to fight off the powerful digger
The video was captured in 2013 but it was recently released to raise awareness about the harm of deforestation to the orangutan habitat
Here’s how people reacted
I just came here to upvote, I could not bear to watch the video, or look at the pictures any longer. It is heart breaking and aggravating what we do to our planet. I'm doing all what I can to protect the environment, related to this post, stopped buying anything with palm oil in it. But we all have to make changes, however small they seem, before it gets too late.
We have started buying stuff without palm oil. The problem is that they use different names on the labels, and i cannot detect them on the cosmetics for example. Its really disappointing what we have done and do to the planet.
It is literally in everything! The best we could do is to minimize the use, at least for now. Below is the link with a list of all the palm derived chemicals: https://www.palmoilinvestigations.org/names-for-palm-oil.html
you just 100% read my mind
Palm oil will not be enough. We need to rally against crop-based fuels. And, what many will not like to hear, we need to eat less meat. Much less meat. Either none at all, or meraly locally produced, organic one (yes, that one that has a literal five to tenfold pricetag). The deforestation is not only for palms and for fuel-crops but in many cases also for soybeans and the like that will be used to feed livestock. (Do not get me wrong:' I am not a vegan activist. I am a realist, and really making changes is painful.)
I for one have no problem with hearing that we need to eat less meat. I eat almost none at all, I just didn't want to list all I do as this article is particularly about the orangutans. I totally agree that it is a waste of everything to grow vegetables to feed animals so that we could eat them while we can perfectly live without meat. I am not a vegan activist either. It just makes me very sad how cruel and ignorant humans can be.
We are the most damaging, parasitic species on the planet. Enough said.
Well that hurt. Humans are so blind sometimes. We try to take over everything.
I just came here to upvote, I could not bear to watch the video, or look at the pictures any longer. It is heart breaking and aggravating what we do to our planet. I'm doing all what I can to protect the environment, related to this post, stopped buying anything with palm oil in it. But we all have to make changes, however small they seem, before it gets too late.
We have started buying stuff without palm oil. The problem is that they use different names on the labels, and i cannot detect them on the cosmetics for example. Its really disappointing what we have done and do to the planet.
It is literally in everything! The best we could do is to minimize the use, at least for now. Below is the link with a list of all the palm derived chemicals: https://www.palmoilinvestigations.org/names-for-palm-oil.html
you just 100% read my mind
Palm oil will not be enough. We need to rally against crop-based fuels. And, what many will not like to hear, we need to eat less meat. Much less meat. Either none at all, or meraly locally produced, organic one (yes, that one that has a literal five to tenfold pricetag). The deforestation is not only for palms and for fuel-crops but in many cases also for soybeans and the like that will be used to feed livestock. (Do not get me wrong:' I am not a vegan activist. I am a realist, and really making changes is painful.)
I for one have no problem with hearing that we need to eat less meat. I eat almost none at all, I just didn't want to list all I do as this article is particularly about the orangutans. I totally agree that it is a waste of everything to grow vegetables to feed animals so that we could eat them while we can perfectly live without meat. I am not a vegan activist either. It just makes me very sad how cruel and ignorant humans can be.
We are the most damaging, parasitic species on the planet. Enough said.
Well that hurt. Humans are so blind sometimes. We try to take over everything.