Despite population revision, Sumatran orangutans still ‘on the road to extinction’

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By <a class="author-link"…Mar 11, 2016, 12:27 pm78 pts
Despite new research that doubled the estimated number of orangutan living in Sumatra's rainforests, the great red ape is still "on the road to extinction", say the authors of the study. In a statement published this week, Serge Wich of Liverpool John Moores University and Ian Singleton and Matthew Nowak of the…

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