Orangutan population in Borneo has HALVED in just 16 years as hunters and habit loss drive the creatures to extinction

Nearly 150,000 orangutans from the island of Borneo have disappeared in just 16 years.

Between 1999 and 2016 over half of the population of the endangered apes have perished on the South-East Asia island.

Many of those losses were apparently driven by the demand for logging, oil palm, mining, paper, hunting and the resulting deforestation. 

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