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MOTHER ORANG-UTAN PROTECTIVELY HUGS HER DAUGHTER AS RUTHLESS BORNEO BOUNTY HUNTERS MOVE IN FOR THE KILL
As bounty hunters with bush knives entrapped them in a circle and moved in for the kill, the only thing this mother orang-utan could think to do was to wrap a giant protective arm around her daughter.
The pair seemed to be facing a certain death as a gang of hunters surrounded them in Borneo, keen to cash in on the palm oil plantations' bid to be rideof the animals.
The right picture captures the last tragic minutes of the adult ape's life - after a frenzied mob beat her, pelted her with rocks then tried to drown her in a swimming pool.
Her crime? She was caught scavenging for fruit to feed her malnourished daughter on the outskirts of a ramshackle village in Borneo.
Alan Knight OBE, head of International Animal Rescue, added: "Sadly this won't be the last time we come across such terrible cruelty. But thanks to people like News of the World readers, we can continue to fight to save suffering animals."
As bounty hunters with bush knives entrapped them in a circle and moved in for the kill, the only thing this mother orang-utan could think to do was to wrap a giant protective arm around her daughter.
The pair seemed to be facing a certain death as a gang of hunters surrounded them in Borneo, keen to cash in on the palm oil plantations' bid to be rideof the animals.
The right picture captures the last tragic minutes of the adult ape's life - after a frenzied mob beat her, pelted her with rocks then tried to drown her in a swimming pool.
Her crime? She was caught scavenging for fruit to feed her malnourished daughter on the outskirts of a ramshackle village in Borneo.
Alan Knight OBE, head of International Animal Rescue, added: "Sadly this won't be the last time we come across such terrible cruelty. But thanks to people like News of the World readers, we can continue to fight to save suffering animals."
