Smuggled orangutans Natalie and Aung-Ing finally head home
The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has sent two orangutans that were smuggled from Malaysia in 2017 back to their point of origin – Indonesia.
The female orangutans, named Natalie and Aung-Ing, were seized at the Padang Besar customs checkpoint in Songkhla province.
The primates were quarantined and dewormed before taking their flight back home from Suvarnabhumi Airport on Thursday afternoon.
