Japik the orangutan spent two long years chained to a tree with nothing but a narrow wooden plank to sit on and no shelter from the hot sun or driving rain. When our team arrived to rescue her all they could see on the plank was a pile of old rags. Or so they thought...
In fact that “pile of old rags” was Japik trying to shelter from the torrential rain under an old jacket. This is how Heribertus, a member of the rescue team, described her:
We have just rescued a tiny baby orangutan after he was found all alone in a palm oil plantation in Borneo.
Didik the baby orangutan has a bullet lodged in his shoulder. He was probably wounded when his mother was shot dead so that poor Didik could be captured and sold as a pet.