- Orangutans are struggling as massive amounts of rainforest in Southeast Asia are burned off, or chopped down, to make way for palm oil. Along with habitat loss, the intelligent and slow-moving great apes have to deal with poachers and locals who eat them or keep them as pets. https://www.insider.com/photos-orangutans-struggle-survive-poaching-deforestation-2020-2 3 comments worldnews
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- One Casualty of the Palm Oil Industry: An Orangutan Mother, Shot 74 Times - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/world/asia/orangutan-indonesia-palm-oil.html 74 comments
- '100,000 orangutans' killed in 16 years - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42994630 11 comments
- An Orangutan Learns to Fish | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/orangutan-learns-fish 6 comments
- BBC Earth | Home http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170117-on-the-trail-of-the-orangutan-killers 5 comments
- Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans – despite multinationals’ promises | Chris Packham | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/10/palm-oil-orangutans-multinationals-promises-deforestation 0 comments
- How the world got hooked on palm oil | Palm oil | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/19/palm-oil-ingredient-biscuits-shampoo-environmental 0 comments
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