“The 2022 deforestation is more than the deforestation of the previous four years combined,” Lukmanul Hakim, the geographical information system (GIS) manager at HAkA, told Mongabay. ‘Orangutan ...
Deforestation alone, the researchers predict, could wipe out a further 45,000 orangutans over the next 35 years. The cultivation of oil palm, found in a wide variety of food products, is a well ...
Making it has resulted in huge deforestation over the years as land is cleared - often by heavily polluting the area, slashing the trees or burning them. If orangutans are going to survive ...
Julius agreed that the frequent sightings of Tapanuli orangutans are likely driven by forest clearance, which pushes the apes out of their habitat and into human settlements and farms. But he said the ...
There are approximately 14,000 Sumatran orangutans still left on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the zoo said. Deforestation and population fragmentation continue to threaten the species.
Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make ... The National Geographic emerging explorer spends most of his time trying to stop deforestation by palm oil and other commodity companies in the ...