Iconic Photo Shows Orangutan Catching Fish With A Makeshift Spear
John Vibes – Primates are extremely intelligent creatures, but humans can sometimes forget how similar we are.
John Vibes – Primates are extremely intelligent creatures, but humans can sometimes forget how similar we are.
Elias Marat – The orangutan population has been driven to the brink of extinction.
Mandy Froelich – Global consumption of palm oil is driving their extinction.
Alex Pietrowski – This may be one of the biggest ecological catastrophes of the 21st century.
Piper Hoffman, Nation of Change Waking Times “Adam,” a poor 19-year-old Indonesian, found a job driving trucks for a palm oil plantation that paid $6 a day. The foreman picked him up for a three-week, two-thousand mile journey to the worksite in Borneo. Along the way the terms of employment changed: Adam wouldn’t be paid for two …
This important documentary was filmed in the fast disappearing Indonesian rainforest and is not narrated, however, its message is clear and frightening. The home of the Orangutan and many other wildlife species in Indonesia is being decimated at an alarming rate by consumer need and greed.