This handout photograph taken on February 6, 2018 and released on February 7 by the Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP) shows a COP activist working on the body of a male orangutan in Bontang, East Kalimantan, which showed signs of a machete attack after it was found by villagers in Borneo's East Kutai district. The body of a Borneo orangutan has been found riddled with some 130 airgun pellets, Indonesian authorities said on February 7, the latest fatal attack on the critically endangered species. Pic/AFP

A critically endangered Borneo orangutan shot to death in Indonesia took 130 bullets from an air rifle, in addition to cuts and bruises, an official of a wildlife group said on Thursday. Indonesia has vast swathes of palm or coffee plantations growing on deforested land, and the year's second such killing is the latest in a series officials often blame on plantation workers and farmers who encounter wildlife on their property.