TAPANULI - Sitompul (40) and Noel Sitompul, residents of North Tapanuli, North Sumatra, rescued one child from the Tapanuli orangutan plantation area of Aek Sorminan, Sitoluompu Village, Pahae Jae District, North Tapanuli.
"After the baby orangutans are found, residents hand it over to the police, and for now we will hand it over to the BBKSDA," said North Tapanuli Police Chief, AKBP Johanson Sianturi in Tarutung, Antara, Thursday, September 29.
It is said, the chronology of saving the baby Sutanuli, male, who is estimated to be 11-12 months old, began when two residents of Sitolumpu Village, found that they were alone and abandoned at the location of Aek Sorminan's durian garden.
Sitompul (40) and Noel Sitompul are two Pahae residents who found the baby orangutans, last Wednesday, around 17.00 WIB.
"This action in saving the children of forest people as protected animals, by two Pahae residents, we really appreciate it," he explained.
It is said that the two residents found the baby orangutan when the two of them went to collect durian, and saw the orangutan's child alone eating durian that fell on the ground surface.
The two of them had time to leave the baby in the vicinity because they thought there was a parent who secretly took care of him. However, awaited until late at around 19.00 WIB, the baby orangutan remained alone without a mother.
Furthermore, both of them took the initiative to approach the orangutan's child to save him, as well as take the baby in question and take him to the village to be reported to the local village head.
The Head of the Tipiter Unit of the Taput Police, Ipda Imron Barus, who received information from the village head, immediately rushed to the location and the residents entrusted the baby orangutan to the police to be handed over to the Natural Resources Conservation Center Section IV Tarutung, Manigor Lumbantoruan.
Manigor who was accompanied by Krisna from the OIC team revealed that the baby orangutan found by residents was a protected animal of the type of Tapanuli orangutan who was one of the species of the orangutan genus from the Tapanuli area.
Orangutan Tapanuli is an additional new species as well as the third species discovered after the orangutan species of Kalimantan and Sumatran orangutans.
Currently, the population of Tapanuli orangutans is only around 800 individuals living in the Tapanuli forest area.
"Usually, orangutan children will be released by their parents at the age of 7 years. So, after these orangutans are quite large and mature, then we will release them in the wild," he said.
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