'Alba', the only albino orangutan ever recorded, was rescued by environmentalists from a cage where she was being kept as a pet by villagers. She has now been released in the forest of Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park in Katingan Regency, Central Kalimantan. (Photo Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation/AFP)JAKARTA: The world’s only known albino orangutan has been released back into the jungle more than a year after she was found emaciated and bloody in a remote corner of Borneo, an Indonesian NGO said Friday. Environmentalists rescued "Alba" from a cage where she was being kept as a pet by villagers in Central Kalimantan in April last year. She was found with dry blood smeared around her nose -- the result of her violent capture -- and weighed just 8 kilogrammes, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) said.

Source: Bangkok Post December 21, 2018 08:45 UTC