Starving orang-utans forced into village for food as rain forest is destroyed...

Arms wrapped dejectedly around his mother, this baby orangutan can only cling on to her for comfort after being tied up in a cage.

The pitiful creatures were captured after going into a village in Sungai Pinyuh, Indonesia, in a desperate search for food.

They were then beaten by villagers so badly one of the primates died before being locked in the tiny cage without food or water. More + photos...

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