2026-06-12
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Should we leave them to die?
The battle over how to save orangutans from the curse of palm oil by Sally Williams, read by Saskia Reeves.
The banana skins were an ominous sign, as was the branch that had been broken off to get to the fruit.
Had Eddie Ramley walked into the forest, he might have seen scattered
balls of bark that had been ripped off trees, chewed like gum, then spat out.
It takes a powerful jaw to do that.
Closer to Eddie's home, there was an intricate construction of bent and broken branches high in a tree.
The nest was October, the fruiting season.
Pile of half-eaten bananas was less than a minute's walk from where Eddie and his family slept.
He felt nervous.
He got on with his day.
He picked sweet corn and sold it at the market.
He bought a carton of chocolate milk and biscuits for his grandson.
He and his wife, City Munawaro, ran the farm with their three adult children.
They prepped the land, sowed seeds, tended crops.
Survival depended on what they could grow.
Now, at five in the afternoon, the light was beginning to fade.