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Can you buy a baby orangutan?
Keeping an orangutan as a pet has been illegal since 1931 under Indonesian and international law. Orangutans are also protected by international trading laws (CITES), where they are listed as Appendix I, prohibiting all unlicensed trade.
How much does a orangutan cost?
Every physical wild adoption of an orangutan costs $130 USD and includes each of the items pictured in the photographs below.
What usually happens to orphaned baby orangutans?
At orangutan rehabilitation centers in Borneo, captured orangutans are gently helped to prepare for life in the wild. The captured orangutans come through many channels. Baby orangutans normally live with their mother for the first six to seven years of their life– until they are strong enough to cope on their own.
Why is life hard for orphans like Gerhana?
Gerhana didn’t have a very good chance of surviving without his mom. Baby orangutans spend about seven years learning skills from their mothers. They’re taught how to find food, swing through the trees, and build a nest to sleep in. So orphans like Gerhana are usually doomed.
Where are the pet orangutans sold for money?
It states: “Illegal wildlife trade often results in pet orangutans living under unnatural and extreme conditions. “Some orangutans are sold to breeding centres in Egypt and Thailand, and others are sold to private and public zoos for entertaining exhibitions for tourists.
Why are they killing mothers of orangutans?
Callous poachers are killing orangutan mothers so they can sell their babies as £17,000 caged pets for the rich. The apes – often just a few months old – are kept behind bars as a sick ‘status symbol’ in their home country of Indonesia. Jon Lockett.
How long does an orangutan carry an infant?
He told the BBC: “A mother orangutan will carry an infant around for almost 24 hours a day for several years so there’s no way she is going to voluntarily hand over that infant or allow any one to take it unless she’s killed. “She’s always going to defend that infant with her life and unfortunately that’s what usually happens.