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The Orangutans Road: Illegal Logging and Mining in Indonesia

2013-02-10 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Brookings: Like in a desolate Edward Hopper landscape, the orangutan was clinging to the one last tree that stood next to the river in Kutai National Park in eastern Kalimantan. The joy of seeing this magnificent primate was spoiled by his destroyed habitat -- under normal circumstances, the orangutan would never venture so far out of trees. But here he was in a beyond-degraded and marginal habitat, probably looking for food he could no longer find inside the forest. Although once a jewel of biodiversity...

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