Conservationists at Sabah in Malaysia are celebrating a breakthrough sentence which has seen 2 palm oil plantation workers jailed for 2 years for killing an orang-utan. The Sabah Wildlife Department have also described the sentence as a ‘landmark decision’.
The two workers pleaded guilty to killing the great ape with a parang – or machete type knife – at Felda Sahabat on Jan 29th 2014. They claimed they killed the orang-utan because it had damaged palm oil plants.
The Sabah Wildlife Department disputed this and said the workers were poaching the animal for the bush meat trade.
Assistant director Dr Sen Nathan from the department said that there was a local demand for bush meat of all types.
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