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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Gloria Dickie

Indonesia floods were ‘extinction level’ disturbance for world’s rarest ape

Orangutan adult and baby.
Fewer than 800 Tapanuli orangutan are left in the wild, confined to a small area of Indonesia’s Sumatra. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The skull of a Tapanuli orangutan, caked in debris, stares out from a tomb of mud in North Sumatra, killed in catastrophic flooding that swept through Indonesia.

The late November floods have been an “extinction-level disturbance” for the world’s rarest great ape, scientists have said, causing catastrophic damage to its habitat and survival prospects.

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