Posted AT 9:16 AM EDT on 07/05/08
Orangutan population plummets
JAKARTA — The world's largest population of wild orangutans – on Indonesia's Borneo island – faces extinction within three years because of rapidly expanding oil-palm plantations, a conservationist group said Wednesday.
A report by the Centre for Orangutan Protection says that only 20,000 of the endangered primates remain in the tropical jungle of Central Kalimantan, down from 31,300 in 2004.
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