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Are we looking at the extinction of orangutans in the wild?
Sep 4 2007, Kanchan

We choose Oil palm plantations instead of orangutans, quick bucks over later losses. Even as their limited habitats are destroyed, they cling precariously to life. From a once-mighty orange army of 300,000 their numbers have dwindled to 25,000...

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