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World Orangutan Day: Numbers in decline despite Indonesian government’s claims

The #team found that half of all #Bornean #Orangutans are impacted by #resource #extraction, and that their numbers fell by more than 100,000 over the sixteen years of...

08/17/2018 / SixDegrees

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Facebook video shows orangutan defending forest against bulldozer

Rhett Butler Dramatic footage released last week by an animal welfare group shows a wild orangutan trying in vain to fight off destruction of […]

06/18/2018 / Mongabay

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How we discovered a new species of Orangutan in northern Sumatra

Colin Groves & Anton Nurcahyo We have discovered a new species of orangutan – the third known species and the first new great ape to be […]

11/06/2017 / The Conversation

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World Orangutan Day: Numbers in decline despite Indonesian government’s claims

Facebook video shows orangutan defending forest against bulldozer

How we discovered a new species of Orangutan in northern Sumatra

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