SCORPION Foundation sends a letter to the Minister of Environment and Forestry Mrs. Siti Nurbaya Bakar urging to ban orangutan show and direct contact between humans and orangutans.
In Taman Safari Park, visitors can have direct contacts with orangutans, and visitors can also hold orangutans . “Allowing visitors to hold orangutans or make direct contacts with orangutans is a form of cruelty to the orangutan- a species having 97 % similarity with human DNA .
Meanwhile in Medan Zoo, visitors can also make direct contact with orangutans. The visitors can give anything to orangutan, including lit cigarette.
"Orangutan show is a cruelty and not healthy," said SCORPION in the letter.
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