Neglected, shivering and traumatised: The moment Japik the orangutan is rescued after being chained up outside on a wooden plank for TWO YEARS
- Japik is between four and five years old and was bought from a hunter
- International Animal Rescue's orangutan rescue and rehabilitation centre in Ketapang saved her
- A special appeal has been launched to help her recovery
An orangutan in Borneo that was found chained up on a narrow wooden plank surrounded by rubbish has been rescued after two years of misery and neglect.
Her rescuers found Japik, who is between four and five years old, soaking wet and shivering on the plank, desperately trying to shelter from the rain under an old jacket.
Alan Knight, Chief Executive of International Animal Rescue, said: 'It was pouring with rain when our team arrived on the scene and at first they couldn't see Japik.
Moment orangutan in Borneo is cut free after being left in rain
Chained up: An orangutan in Borneo that was found chained up on a narrow wooden plank surrounded by rubbish has been rescued after two years of misery and neglect.
Abandoned: It was pouring with rain when the International Animal Rescue team arrived on the scene and at first they couldn't see Japik
Unloved: Her rescuers found Japik, who is between four and five years old, soaking wet and shivering on the plank, desperately trying to shelter from the rain under an old jacket
'They spotted what they thought was a pile of old rags on the plank but then, when they saw it moving, they knew they had found her.
'As our video shows, the poor orangutan couldn't escape from the rain and was cold and drenched by the time we reached her.
'What a miserable existence for any animal, to be trapped on a wooden plank, unable to display any natural behaviour and completely exposed to the burning sun and the driving rain.
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