Conservationists have discovered a new population of orangutans — perhaps as many as 2,000 — in a remote, mountainous corner of Indonesia giving a rare boost to one of the world's most endangered apes.
A team surveying forests in eastern Borneo counted 219 orangutan nests, indicating a "substantial" number of the animals, said Mr Erik Meijaard, a senior ecologist at the The Nature Conservancy. There are an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 90 per cent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia.
AP
From TODAY, World – Monday, 13-April-2009
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