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Orangutans fight survival as thirst for palm oil devastates rainforest

2013-12-15 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Even in the first light of dawn in the Tripa swamp forest of Sumatra it is clear that something is terribly wrong. Where there should be lush foliage stretching away towards the horizon, there are only the skeletons of trees. Smoke drifts across a scene of devastation. Tripa is part of the Leuser Ecosystem, one of the world's most ecologically important rainforests and once home to its densest population of Sumatran orangutans. As recently as 1990, there were 60,000 hectares of swamp forest...

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