Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans

Mongabay
Dec 18, 2025, 1:50 pm281 pts
JAKARTA — Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape population, now faces the prospect of losing more of its already constricted habitat. Just weeks before a rare tropical storm in the Malacca Strait unleashed torrential rains…

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