Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat

Mongabay
Jul 14, 2026, 7:24 am120 pts
JAKARTA — Large infrastructure projects have long dominated debate over the future of Indonesia’s Batang Toru ecosystem, the main stronghold of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. But a new study suggests that while those projects have accelerated forest loss, the greatest direct threat to the…

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