Death of a Smoker
February 17, 2004
CONGRATULATIONS on your successful killing of our child!" The words, shouted in anger by Mudjianto and his wife Farida, echoed around the room where a press conference was being held by the Wildlife Rescue Center (PPS) at Petungsewu, Kecamatan Dau, in Malang, East Java, late in December. The couple was visibly incensed after Dr. Willie Smits, Director of the Indonesian Gibbon Foundation, announced that Tole, the orangutan they had nurse
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