Sumatran flood disaster may have wiped out key Tapanuli orangutan population
via news.mongabay.com
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JAKARTA — A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern Sumatra — a grim sign of how severely recent floods and landslides may have devastated the species’ fragile habitat. A group of scientists has described the catastrophe as an “extinction-level disturbance” […]