Forest and Oil Palm Plantation (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Forest and Oil Palm Plantation

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On Borneo large areas of primary forest are converted into oil palm plantations. Today, some 10,000 orangutans occur in areas allocated to oil palm development, but still forested. If these areas are converted, most of them will die.

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© Marc Ancrenaz

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