Global issues: Environment, Conservation, Human rights, Animal welfare, Climate change, etc.
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by Sarita Singh
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In the past 20 years, orangutan habitat has declined by
80%. Borneo’s devastating fires of 1997-98 alone destroyed 5 million
hectares of forest and with it, one third of the orangutan population.
Today, of the roughly 40,000 orangutans left in the world, it is
estimated that as many as 5,000 are killed every year, many of them
dying at the hands of humans in some of the most abusive and horrific
ways imaginable. The main culprit? Palm oil.
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