Oil palm expansion threatens Orangutans
Deforestation for conversion to palm oil plantations is threateneding one of the world's largest populations of wild Orangutans in Central Kalimanatan, Indonesia, which is declining at more than 9% per year, reports AFP
Palm oil wiping out key orangutan habitat: activists
AFP
7 May 2008
JAKARTA (AFP) — One of the biggest populations of wild orangutans on Borneo will be extinct in three years without drastic measures to stop the expansion of palm oil plantations, conservationists said Wednesday.
"For Central Kalimantan, the species will be gone as soon as three years from now," Centre for Orangutan Protection director Hardi Bhaktiantoro told a press conference.
More than 30,000 wild orangutans live in the forests of Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province, or more than half the entire orangutan population of Borneo island which is shared between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.
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