Indonesia: Palm oil wiping out key orangutan habitat: activists

Agence France-Presse: One of the biggest populations of wild orangutans on Borneo will be extinct in three years without drastic measures to stop the expansion of palm oil plantations, conservationists said Wednesday. "For Central Kalimantan, the species will be gone as soon as three years from now," Centre for Orangutan Protection director Hardi Bhaktiantoro told a press conference. More than 30,000 wild orangutans live in the forests of Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province, or more ... Read »

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