I can’t get this image out of my mind.
Orangutan rescue, Borneo. (Video frame: International Animal Rescue)
A female orangutan isolated in the remains of a jungle that had been bulldozed down around her to plant palm oil trees, fleeing desperately from the animal that had been trying to kill her. In this case, her pursuers were there to rescue her from certain death, but experience told her to flee.
Clearing the forest had deprived her of fruit and leaves, reducing her to eating bark and stems and she was weak from hunger. On this occasion, rather than chasing her away or killing her, the palm oil company that had destroyed the forest contacted International Animal Rescue (IAR) so she could be captured and moved to a place of safety.
Starving orangutan rescue, Borneo. (Photo: International Animal Rescue)
A few minutes later members of IAR’s team in Borneo along with members of the local forestry department, covered her with a net and transported her to undisturbed jungle.
The rescuers determined that she was lactating, which meant she had lost her baby which had probably been killed not long before the rescue team arrived.
Watch the video of her rescue here.
To learn about and contribute to International Animal Rescue.
First Light Productions 
I follow this cause closely. Any human who isn’t moved by these chilling images has no heart or soul. Say no to palm oil.
http://gettingonmysoapbox.wordpress.com/
I worked as a volunteer in Kalimantan Timur and was asked to leave after (among other things, some of them less laudable) asking too many questions about illegal logging. What are we? Are we free to enculturate ourselves so that we realise what we are doing? I think so. I think we have a choice, as soon as we realise what we are doing, to change direction. We don’t have an awful lot of play – nothing like the ‘free will’ we think we have. But we have enough. Enough to galvanise ourselves so that we take responsibility for the appalling torture we have inflicted upon other species in the name of our own (or at lleast those in the global North’s) ‘progress’.