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A mother orangutan (pongo pygmaeus) and her male son play at an orangutan school inside the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation area. Some 23,000 orangutans were found in Kalimantan, and the remaining 12,000 in Sumatra
Monday, Jul. 07, 2008

Open quoteUnless something is done, the wild orangutan is on a quick spiral towards extinction.Close quote

  • MICHELLE DESILETS
  • director of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK, on a new study that shows numbers of the apes have fallen sharply in Indonesia and Malaysia due to illegal logging and the spread of palm oil plantations.
Photo: WEDA / Corbis | Source: AP