By Zamzami*
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13 November 2015 – For half an hour Otan wouldn’t let go. Only eight months old, he already had a vice-like grip, his nails digging so deep they left half-moon imprints in the skin of his carer. If there were trees, Otan would be swinging freely from branch to branch, his strong grip lifting him in high arcs through the forest canopy. But there were no more trees left for Otan.
8-month old Otan who lost his mother and home due to deforestation.
I was with a Greenpeace team in fire-ravaged West Kalimantan last month, when I heard some news from Linga Village, about 30 minutes by road from the capital, Pontianak in which villagers were nurturing a wild orangutan.
Otan’s home had been razed to make way for an oil plantation. Only small patches of forest were left, but in time those areas would be razed too.
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