Articles Tagged with “sumatran”

2 Articles found tagged with “sumatran”.

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  Good News for Orangutans…Or Is It?

  In the last 25 years, Sumatra has lost almost half of its forests, and has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. The orangutan’s forest home is being felled and turned into oil palm plantations on a massive scale.

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  Sumatran Rhino Extinct in Malaysia

  It is vital for the survival of the species that all remaining Sumatran rhinos are viewed as a metapopulation, meaning that all are managed in a single program across national and international borders in order to maximize overall birth rate.