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Goodbye, Cousin.(orangutan)(Brief Article)
Inspired by an August 2002 report from the U.S.-based Nature Conservancy.
The last wild orangutan had no-where to hide. For thousands of years the red ape--humankind's third closest living relative--flourished in lush tropical forests. The species, its name taken from a Malay term that means "people of the forest," had no natural predators. But in a mere three decades it has been driven to extinction. The main culprits are miners, peasants and illegal loggers who have destroyed the orangutan's habitat on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo (also shared by Malaysia and Brunei). More than half the lowland forests were razed during Suharto's autocratic reign. But the advent of democracy in Indonesia in the late 1990s spawned a frenzy of ...
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