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Orangutans face complete extinction within 10 years, animal rescue charity warns
Burning forests to make way for plantations to support the world’s insatiable demand for palm oil is one of the main causes of the astonishing decline in numbers of this species
Orangutans will be extinct from the planet within 10 years unless action is taken to preserve forests in Indonesia and Malaysia where they live, a conservation charity has warned.
The Bornean orangutan was officially listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last month, joining the only other kind, the Sumatran orangutan, in that classification.
In just 25 years, more than a quarter of Indonesia’s forests – 76 million acres, an area almost the size of Germany – have disappeared.
One of the main reasons is to clear land to make way for palm oil plantations. The oil is used to make a vast array of different consumer products from crisps, pizza, noodles and donuts to toothpaste, shampoo and biodiesel.
Earlier this year Greenpeace accused major brands such as Pepsico, Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive of failing to make sure their products did not contain palm oil grown on deforested land.
Indonesian Forest Fires: Orangutan mother saves baby then is attacked by villagers until rescuers arrive
An orangutan and her baby have been rescued after they were reportedly attacked by villagers in Borneo.
The apes ended up in the village after the mother saved her baby from forest fires that are currently ravaging Indonesia.
Orangutans have increasingly been forced to enter populated areas of Borneo in search of food due to their shrinking habitat and are seen by some villagers as pests.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indonesian-forest-fires-orangutan-mother-saves-baby-then-is-attacked-by-villagers-until-rescuers-a6730021.html