Orangutan found dead in Indonesia was shot 17 times

JAKARTA: The animal was found floating in a river in South Barito district on Monday with its head missing, according to the local government-run Nature Conservancy Agency.
A necropsy on Thursday found 17 air rifle pellets lodged in the male orangutan's body, agency chief Adib Gunawan said Friday.
"We, together with the police are taking action and hopefully the perpetrators will be found soon," he said.
Classified as "critically endangered" species, orangutans number around 111,000 in the wild on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, according to the World Wildlife Fund conservation group.
Conservationists have said the species' survival is threatened by poaching and the destruction of their habitat through the logging industry. — dpa