Endangered orangutan with a young baby was blinded after being shot at least 74 times with an air gun, veterinarian says.
Veterinarians and volunteers tend to a female orangutan, named Hope, after a surgery to remove dozens of air rifle pellets from her body in Indonesia on March 17, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SIBOLANGIT, Indonesia — An endangered orangutan with a young baby on Indonesia's Sumatra island was blinded after being shot at least 74 times with an air gun, an official and veterinarian said Monday.
Villagers spotted the severely wounded orangutan in a farm in Aceh province's Subulussalam district last week with its month-old baby, which was suffering from critical malnutrition, said Sapto Aji Prabowo, who heads the Aceh provincial conservation agency. "Hopefully Hope can pass this critical period, but she cannot be released to the wild anymore," Saraswati said, adding that during the operation they only removed seven of the gun pellets because they had to prioritize fixing the animal's broken collarbone and the risk of infection that it posed.
It said in the last 10 years, it has treated more than 15 orangutans with a total of nearly 500 air gun pellets in their bodies.
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