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Simian alert!

Simian alert! the orangutan could go extinct within a decade unless illegal logging in the habitat and poaching is controlled . These are the findings of a research conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society (wcs) based in the us. The study has documented the tremendous decline in orangutan population throughout its range. In the Leuser ecosystem in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, which supported 12,000 orangutans in 1993