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Orangutans face extinction on Borneo where deforestation is unsustainable: UN

Orangutans face extinction on Borneo where deforestation is unsustainable: UN

Jul 30, 2015, at 02:08 pm

New York, Jul 30 (IBNS): The massive conversion of Borneo’s forests for the production palm oil together with the impact of climate change is driving to extinction the orangutan on Asia’s largest island, making it “clear that a future without sustainable development will be a future with a different climate and, eventually, without orangutans, one of our closest relatives,” a new United Nations report revealed on Wednesday.