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BBC: The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates that the population has declined by 50% in recent decades and the Indonesian government admits that 50,000 orangutans have died as a result of de-forestation. A BBC Panorama investigation into clear-cutting in Indonesian Borneo - the island it shares with Malaysia - found that the thirst for land on which to plant palm plantations is encroaching on areas that the Indonesian government has deemed to be ......
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Indonesia: Orangutan survival and the shopping trolley
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 22nd, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation