This Orangutan Trying To Save His Home By Fighting With An Excavator Is Going Viral, And It's Heartb

[geardaddy]

This Orangutan Trying To Save His Home By Fighting With An Excavator Is Going Viral, And It’s Heartbreaking
https://www.boredpanda.com/orangutan-fighting-loggers-digger-indonesia/?cexp_id=10525&cexp_var=4&_f=trending

More than 2,5 million acres of Indonesian rainforest are lost every year. This senseless deforestation leaves many 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 population.

On Words Environment Day this non-profit 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 deforestation to the orangutan habitat.

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.

video at link.

[nmgaucho]

1. This is sad and makes me so fucking angry

We (humans) will pray the price dearly for this kind of horrific behavior

[geardaddy]

2. I know. I have no words for the horror that this is.

[Submariner]

26. We need a world-wide pandemic to take out 50-70% of human population

Dinosaurs ruled the planet for over 180 million years, but in just over 150 years our species of Hominid has made a mess of everyfuckingthing.

A max blast of the Yellowstone Super volcano would be a good start.

[workinclasszero]

3. Humanity is quickly destroying this planet for $$$

The last victims of insane capitalism will be ourselves and our poor unfortunate children.

[Bayard]

4. Tears and anger....

What do you suppose is going to happen to this sentient being?

[workinclasszero]

5. He will die from lack of food and habitat or be killed

for sport no doubt.

Very sad.

[Duppers]

6. Help stop this: do not buy PALM OIL

Or products made with it.
Here:

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/why-you-should-avoid-palm-oil-and-how-to-do-it/

[Doremus]

22. This 1000 times. NO PALM OIL folks, read labels, it's making its way into everything. nt

[Duppers]

7. We all are killing our cousins. Look at this..

Products containing palm oil...

[MariaCSR]

10. That's almost everything ever made.

What's the alternative?

[Duppers]

12. Wish I had an answer. 😖

50% of all packaged foods contain palm oil from the palms' fruit.

I'll get blasted for this: We humans are the cause for most environmental degradation. We should adopt a one-child policy, as China did yrs ago.


(China has since dropped the policy because the Chinese ppl were so resentful of it. They are traditionalists. I've personally listened to young mothers in China who were upset because they weren't allowed have another child. )

[geardaddy]

16. Plus it led to selective abortions for people to have sons.

and female infanticide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#Sex-selective_abortion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#Effect_on_infanticide_rates

[Duppers]

17. Yes, I know. Especially in more rural areas.

India also uses all methods to guarantee male births. And their population is terribly lopsided.

The one of Chinese ladies I personally know had a boy child but wanted a girl too. She is a well-educated and respected physicist. It's sad that most Asians still hold men in much higher regard then we modern western cultures do. At least we've made some advances in that regard.

[geardaddy]

20. I lived in Beijing in 1984-85 during my sophomore year in college

They had started the one-child policy a few years before and we heard about the female infanticide in the provinces. The boys born during the one-child policy are now known as Little Emperors, especially the ones in the upper classes.

[Duppers]

21. Reminds me of tRump, only he wasn't an only..

child but he was favored by his father.



I do have "an only" btw, but I was tough on him, too tough he says. Folks compliment him, saying he doesn't act like "an only."

[Duppers]

24. Wasn't the pollution terrible then?

Especially in the winter?

We landed in Beijing in Oct. 2010. Our plane and the runways had landing lights at noon time because of the thick smog. I'd never seen pollution so bad, even in LA in the '70s.

I thought Shanghai was much friendlier than Beijing - we were often stared at there - whereas the younger Chinese in Shanghai would approach us all the time and ask if they could make pics with us. Their English was impressive. Shanghai had changed so much from 1992 that it blew our minds in 2010. The country is amazing in so many ways now. Do you stay in touch with anyone there?

[geardaddy]

25. Yes, the pollution was terrible.

I remember seeing people using coal to cook with and making briquettes out of the remaining coal dust they had. We didn't get stared at much in Beijing, but when I went to Xi'an, we were stared at intensely.

Shanghai was great. It still had that foreign cosmopolitan feeling from the 1930s when I was there. I'm glad I got to see the PRC before all the major modernization. Now, all of the hu tong (traditional alleyways) are all gone in Beijing.

I don't keep up with anyone there. I lost touch with all the Chinese people I knew there. I lived in Taiwan for four years after Beijing and keep up with some people there still.

[Bayard]

19. I've known people who shouldn't have been allowed to breed at all

[Duppers]

23. Me too, Bayard.

Me too. Quite a number in fact. And in these economic times, with rising food prices, I don't know how families can make ends meet.

And imo, birth control should be free and available everywhere.

Churches would hate that. The punishment for sex should always be pregnancy...and more babies than anyone can *properly* care for. Every baby needs to be loved and properly cared for. Those who aren't will bare the psychological scars the rest of their lives.
(My own father made it known that he resented all of us kids.)

[lpbk2713]

8. "Wanna know what you can do with your excavator?"

[MariaCSR]

9. I'm sobbing

[Marcuse]

11. Condemn the inhumanity of this reality and consider it a metaphor for the Mueller Investigation.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. Heartwrenching!

[mnmoderatedem]

14. reminds me of trump when tax assessors come to trump tower

he even looks like the orangutan

[Duppers]

18. Hey hey

Don't insult the 'rangs.

[Demovictory9]

15. ..

[applegrove]

27. That is so sad.