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Indonesia floods were ‘extinction level’ disturbance for rare orangutan species

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 4 days ago - 13:42

Conservationists fear up to 11% of Tapanuli population perished in disaster that also killed 1,000 people

Indonesia’s deadly flooding was an “extinction-level disturbance” for the world’s rarest great ape, the Tapanuli orangutan, causing catastrophic damage to its habitat and survival prospects, scientists warned on Friday.

Only scientifically classified as a species in 2017, Tapanulis are incredibly rare, with fewer than 800 left in the wild, confined to a small range in part of Indonesia’s Sumatra.

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