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Actually, probably the old lady did not understand - for the noise. The monsoon rain crackles like a barrage on the roof, the monkeys scream like spit, and the almost federlose Kakadu zetert again loudly around. That Ulrike baroness of Mengden still noisy against the competition, which in addition to romp 19 orang-utans still at least three dogs and eight cats socialize, can enforce, is located on the casino and Prussian Kommandoton and their holy wrath.
For once, it can really upset about the "corrupt Bagasche Janze" animal hater, the bureaucrats, politicians, unscrupulous bonze. It's about orang-utans, which urged ausgewildert be, but for once no one is interested, the neglect of the zoo, to the destruction of the Indonesian rainforest. "This country does not love animals," complains the Prussian petite lady, "it is a disgrace."
Ulrike von Mengden, Ibu Ulla called, lives in a small bungalow in the middle of the "Ragunan Zoo" of Jakarta, their refuge. She sits on the covered patio and fruit juice can be served. Behind her stick a poster of an orangutan displays, along with the admonition: "I'm not a monkey, I am your great-great-great-great-grandfather." The screaming monkey is calm again. Ulla not. She is a fighter. She is an officer's daughter from Labiau. The not so quickly capitulated. "The moral of the weaker defender shows so boldly must be the attacker." Did Clausewitz said. Ulla, Prussian, Protestant, keeps it. "I know no mercy."
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Their use is the unique fauna of Indonesia, currently almost quickly as nowhere else will be decimated. Especially since Europe approaches of Ökowahn shows go on with the Orang-utans, the "forest people," rapidly downhill. Because the European Union as the target output has nearly ten percent of its fuel needs from biofuel also cover to try to shoot in Borneo Palm oil plantations out of the ground. Hourly rain forest in Indonesia is in an area which corresponds to 300 soccer fields, cleared.
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As the largest Regenwaldvernichter the earth brought it to the government in Jakarta, even in the "Guinness Book of World Records." Indonesia, one of more than 17,000 islands existing paradise, is being systematically plundered. "These bastards" complains the free woman, "especially the ones who suffer great apes: Still to be about 50,000 Borneo orangutans live, but if the forest is not curbed, it will soon just type in zoos can survive."
In the Zoo of Jakarta Ulla lives of Mengden now since 1968. At that time, the zoo moved from downtown to the south in order. She has to live here for life and built a station here, the orang-utan orphans absorbs aufpäppelt and then helps them auszuwildern. This work is her life's work. Ulrike free woman of Mengden was curator of the zoos. She wants to stay here. Despite all the problems with Zoodirektoren ignorant, corrupt bureaucrats and rapacious killers rainforest. Meanwhile, Indonesia is their mother country, while Germany is always their homeland still, she says. True is hardly surprising. Finally, she lives here already since 57 years.
"A paradise on earth"
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At that time, the early fifties, she came with her husband, Hans Mengden Mary of Clovis, after Indonesia. In Java, the family had owned a cattle farm. Why not? The two were young, they had nothing to lose, Europe lay in ruins. Still fresh were the memories of the great war. Ulla was a nurse is always just behind the front was in Dunkirk, in Norway in the U-boat hospital, where she got scarlet fever, which is why she still sounds bad. Then in Russia on the Eastern Front. Near the Romanian border, she was away with the troops of the Red Army was eingekesselt, Hungary, they had rescued. "I was Halbverhungert finally arrived in Germany."
The future, of a part of the war years in captivity was spent in the Himalayas, they had while studying in Bonn met. He was in Indonesia more than in Germany. The family already existed since 1896, even as Indonesia was Dutch colony. Lang hesitated not both, as they call the wilderness seized. Ulla and fell instantly in the exotic country. "It was a paradise here, and this zoo is the largest and most beautiful in the whole earth," says the mother monkeys.
But then it slowly went downhill. In particular, under the dictator Suharto of Indonesia from 1966 to 1998 reign, the country fell under the robbers. "Anyone who is honest, is your own fault, and who is not corrupt, it is done - that's been the motto," says Ms. von Mengden Free.
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Way they still do not wants. Where too? Her husband died a long time ago, now it is an "old widow," she says. And the animals need them of course, more than ever. Between 300 and 500 orang-utans are now gone through their station. And it is increasingly difficult for newcomers to find any seats. Almost impossible, it is still what auszuwildern. The rainforest areas, the redheaded apes to survive in the wild need to shrink ever faster.
"Right raving" could they be when they hear something complains Ulrike free woman of Mengden. And to their words to be emphasized, it proposes the robust bony fist on the table. But then she says still something conciliation. That they love this country indefinitely, because it is so rich, so complex and so alien that "a real wonderland."
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