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Multiple threats endanger the world's rarest great ape, a new study on the Tapanuli orangutan reveals

Deep in the forests of North Sumatra, Indonesia, lives the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), the world's rarest great ape. Fewer than 800 individuals remain, confined to the Batang Toru ecosystem, a landscape that is also home to other rare species like Sumatran tigers, Sunda pangolins, agile gibbons and helmeted hornbills.

Multiple threats endanger the world's rarest great ape, a new study on the Tapanuli orangutan reveals

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