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Sumatra's Orang-utans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Markus Borner
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In the course of his WWF survey for rhinos in Sumatra, the author also made a study of orang-utans. He came to the conclusion that the total number in Sumatra is not more than 3500–4500, despite higher figures that have been circulated, and that probably half of these – the animals living in forests outside the nature reserves – are severely threatened. Not only are they hunted and poached, but their habitat is being rapidly destroyed by big timber companies with concessions for clear-felling-15½ million cubic metres of timber were exported in 1973.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , February 1976 , pp. 290 - 293
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1976

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