Borneo is globally significant for biodiversity, but it also has some of the world’s highest deforestation rates. The report by MariaVoigtabc,Hjalmar S.Kühlab, Marc Ancrenazde, David Gaveauf, Erik Meijaard, Truly Santika, Julie Shermani Serge, Florian Wolfa, Matthew J.Struebig, Henrique M.Pereiraalm, Isabel M.D.Rosan suggests that since 1973, agriculture, plantations, mining, infrastructure development, and forest fires have destroyed more than 30 per cent of the island’s original old-growth forest cover. Every year, 2,000 to 3,000 orangutans are killed. While exact orangutan population counts are always difficult to obtain, current estimates place the number of wild orangutans at 50,000-65,000. At this rate of extinction, … Continue reading The Habitat Of 26,200 Bornean Orangutans Could Be Lost By 2030s