By Helen Buckland | Director
This week has been a busy one for the Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit (HOCRU) in Sumatra.
On Sunday they confiscated Cece, a young female orangutan, from an amusement park in Sibolangit, and yesterday the team evacuated a big cheekpadder male orangutan from farmlands in Aceh that are about to be turned into an oil palm plantation.
Cece, thought to be around 5 years old, was being kept in a tiny, dirty cage. Now she is in safe hands with our friends at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme, and we hope will one day return to the forest.
The wild male orangutan rescued yesterday has already been released back to the wild.
The HOCRU team deliver crucial and urgent assistance to orangutans in desperate situations, and have now saved the lives of more than 50 orangutans.
Sadly, these rescues and evacuations are not uncommon, and there are many more orangutans that need help to return to the wild, where they belong.
Your donations mean so much to the team, who work tirelessly for the welfare and protection of these magnificent animals. With so few Sumatran orangutans left in the wild, every life counts, and we hope you will continue to support this vital work.
Please consider making a regular monhtly gift to this project, or sharing it with your friends and family so that they can join you in helping orangutans. Together, we stand strong for our red-haired cousins.
Thank you.
(Photos of Cece by Gita Defoe / Photographers Without Borders)
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