Increase in number of orangutans confiscated from poachers in Aceh

As habitat destruction expands (most recently logging and draining the Tripa Swamp in Leuser Ecosystem for palm oil plantations), poaching and illegal capture of endangered Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) increases.

Read the article: Everywhere else but home. What’s going on? A glimpse into the future.

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