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Demand for Palm Oil Threatens Orangutans

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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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