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Discovery of baby orangutans in India exposes booming illegal pet trade

Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Monday, October 26, 2026 at 7:06 AM · 1 min read
Discovery of baby orangutans in India exposes booming illegal pet trade — South China Morning Post, Seoul Business news
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The villagers who first spotted the five baby orangutans in a casuarina forest in India in early September were puzzled by their reddish hair and unfamiliar faces. The three males and two females, aged six to eight months – were left on a plantation in eastern India’s Odisha, over 2,700km (1,700 miles) from their native rainforests in Borneo and Sumatra, evidence of a growing illicit trade of apes being trafficked into India. They are now at an Indian zoo, where keepers reportedly have been...

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