Demand for Palm Oil Threatens Orangutans
Critter News
JANUARY 27, 2009
There are only an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 90 percent of them in Indonesia, said Serge Wich, a scientist at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa. Tags: orangutans. Most live in small, scattered populations that cannot take the onslaught on the forests much longer.
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