Orangutan shot 130 times in Indonesia, in second killing reported this year

Mongabay
Feb 7, 2018, 5:02 am293 pts
JAKARTA — A second orangutan has been found killed in Indonesian Borneo in as many months, this time shot more than 100 times with a pellet gun, a conservation group has reported. An X-ray on the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) that died in East Kalimantan province on Feb. 6 revealed 130 pellets in its…

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