Palm oil plantations a threat to orangutan population

Updated May 13, 2008 10:15:31

An Indonesian conservationist fears one of the biggest populations of wild orangutans on Borneo will be extinct in three years without drastic measures to stop the expansion of palm oil plantations.

Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speakers: Leif Cocks, President of the Australian Orangutan Project; Mubariq Ahmad, Indonesian Director, Worldwide Fund for Nature; Troy Kenah, Committee member of the Australian Orangutan Project

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