ENN, November 07, 2012
Borneo
will likely lose half of its orangutans if current deforestation and forest
conversion trends continue, warns a comprehensive new assessment by an
international team of researchers. The
study, published in the journal PLoS ONE, overlays orangutan distribution
with land use regulations in Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo. Borneo has
suffered high rates of deforestation, logging, and forest conversion for
industrial plantations in recent decades, endangering the world's largest
surviving populations of orangutans. Read more Read more...
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