Question for Indonesia Kalimantan / Sumatra experts re Green the Film
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Question for Indonesia Kalimantan / Sumatra experts re Green the Film
The searing images of a female Orangutan 'Green', helpless and in near death throes being plucked from the mud, possibly in Kalimantan, from a documentary called Green The Film, have appeared in many news channels just recently.Here are a couple of those articles:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118376/Filmmakers-heart-wrenching-documentary-shows-tragic-final-hours-orangutans-life.html
http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8439943/orangutans-last-moments-caught-on-film
The original site for the documentary and the story is at http://www.greenthefilm.com/
I noticed from my own post (and photography from a short trip) about Malaysian Borneo recently, that there are a few highly experienced Borneo / Kalimantan / Sumatra travelers on this forum. My question to you is: What is your opinion of this story/documentary, and what is the ground reality in Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra with deforestation and the fate of the Orangutans as relayed in this documentary?
Thanks
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IMO, the reality is worse than any film can portray.At least it is on Kalimantan. I can't speak for Sumatra.

