BHP Billiton corporation threat to orang-utans of Borneo

This video is about orang-utans.

Talking about greenwashing by corporations … from The Sunday Times in Britain:

Mining giant to raze apes’ forest home

Clare Rewcastle and Jon Ungoed-Thomas

THE world’s biggest mining company, a supporter of the BBC’s Saving Planet Earth campaign to protect orang-utans, is planning to raze some of the great apes’ rainforest habitat.

Documents obtained by The Sunday Times reveal that the Anglo-Australian group BHP Billiton plans to exploit mining rights across swathes of Borneo’s tropical forests in southeast Asia. It has lobbied for the protected status of some of these areas to be lifted so it can clear the trees and dig for coal.

Details of the proposed open cast mines in the region, known as the Heart of Borneo, have outraged environmentalists and wildlife experts.

Orang-utan ancestry: here.

Primates of Indonesia video: here.

Proboscis monkeys of Borneo: here.

Geology of Borneo caves: here.

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