Deadly landslide hits Indonesian dam project in orangutan habitat, again

Mongabay
Apr 30, 2021, 11:45 am154 pts
JAKARTA — Three people are reportedly dead and nine are missing after a landslide hit the site of a planned hydropower plant in the only known habitat of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan in Sumatra. At around midday April 29, heavy rains began pounding the site in the Batang Toru ecosystem in…

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