By Victoria Gill
Science correspondent, BBC News
16 February 2018
More than 100,000 Critically Endangered
orangutans have been killed in Borneo since 1999, research has revealed.
Scientists who carried out a 16-year survey
on the island described the figure as "mind-boggling".
Deforestation, driven by logging, oil palm,
mining and paper mills, continues to be the main culprit.
But the research, published in
the journal Current Biology, also revealed that animals were "disappearing" from
areas that remained forested.
This implied large numbers of orangutans were
simply being slaughtered, said lead researcher Maria Voigt of the Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
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