Orangutans threatened with extinction

Saturday 16 March 1996 00:02 GMT
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Orangutans threatened with extinction

Jakarta - Orangutans in Indonesia's east Kalimantan province on Borneo island are on the brink of extinction because development is destroying their habitat, Soeparno, head of the Samarinda Forestry Research Centre, was quoted as telling the founder and president of the World Wide Fund for Nature, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Reuter

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