Endangered orangutans could become the first great ape to become extinct if urgent action isn’t taken to protect the species from human encroachment in Southeast Asia, a new study says. The number of orangutans in Indonesia and Malaysia has declined sharply since 2004, mostly because of illegal logging and the expansion of palm oil plantations, said Serge Wich, a scientist at the Great Ape Trust in the US state of Iowa, yesterday
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