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  • 2022-01-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Did an Orangutan Try To Fight a Bulldozer Razing a Forest? (en)
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  • On Jan. 3, 2022, a video was posted to Reddit with the caption: An orangutan tries to fight off a bulldozer destroying his forest. It received tens of thousands of upvotes on the r/Damnthatsinteresting and r/nextfuckinglevel subreddits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihPfB30YT_cIt was true that the video showed an orangutan trying to fight off the bulldozer as it destroyed the forest in which it lived. This was perhaps one of many times that animals have engaged with deforestation equipment in the past. However, what made this encounter different was the fact that it was captured on video. On June 7, 2018, the Independent reported that the footage was not new, but rather had been shot in 2013: We looked back in the video library for International Animal Rescue's Facebook page and found the old clip. According to the post, the footage was first made public in 2018. The video of the orangutan fighting off the bulldozer was first featured in the 2018 documentary, Red Ape: Saving the Orangutan. It aired on BBC2 on May 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEvDKOID_6kThe same video also appeared in the 2019 documentary, Climate Change: The Facts. The film featured Sir David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg. According to Orangutan Foundation International, palm oil is the leading cause of orangutan extinction: The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) also published a page on the subject, saying that forest clearing for palm oil plantations and illegal logging are driving massive deforestation. On Nov. 17, 2020, the Associated Press published a comprehensive investigation that looked at the hidden human element of the palm oil industry. The reporting documented allegations that went much deeper than simply destroying the homes of orangutans: In regards to the video of the orangutan and the bulldozer, in sum, it was true that the animal engaged with the machine that was being used to destroy the forest. The clip was captured in 2013 in Indonesia. (en)
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