Breakthrough as plantation workers jailed for killing orangutan
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Conservationists in Sabah in Malaysia are celebrating a breakthrough sentence which has seen two palm oil plantation workers jailed for two years for killing an orangutan. The Sabah Wildlife Department have also described the sentence as a ‘landmark decision’.
The two workers pleaded guilty to killing the great ape with a parang – or machete type knife – at Felda Sahabat on 29 January 2014. They claimed they killed the orangutan because it had damaged palm oil plants.
The Sabah Wildlife Dep...
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