British vet battles to save orangutan shot 130 times and stabbed at palm oil site

A British vet desperately battled to save an orangutan that had been shot 130 times and hacked with a machete.



Paul Ramos, from Stratford Upon Avon, was in Borneo to see the plight of the endangered animals and the work being done by charities to save them.



While there he encountered a young orangutan that had been brutally attacked near a palm oil plantation, the BBC reports.



The five-year-old male was so emaciated that vets initially thought he was a female.



The mammal was found clinging to a branch - and when he was brought to the vet for treatment - it emerged he had been shot 130 times and hacked with a machete.