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Orangutans Face Extinction as Palm Oil Expands in Indonesia
In Tanjung Puting National Park Indonesia field biologist Birute Mary Galdikas warns palm oil expansion is driving deforestation threatening 50 000 to 60 000 wild orangutans. She notes 300 football fields cleared hourly and park borders at risk from a 1996 versus 1977 map dispute.
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Tanjung Puting National Park
Indonesia
Louis Leakey
Africa
Asia
Jane Goodall
Dian Fossey
Pirute
Mary Galdikas
Galdikas
U.S
Europe
Serge Wich
Great Ape Trust of
Iowa
Tanjung Puting
Borneo Island
Sebangan National Park
University of California
Los Angeles
Leakey
Goodall
Fossey
Rod Brindamour