Orang-utans ‘may die out by 2025’: “The orang-utan, Asia’s ‘wild man of the forests’, could disappear in just 20 years, a campaign group believes.

WWF, the global environment network, says in the last century the number of apes fell by 91% in Borneo and Sumatra.

Globally, it says, there were thought to be somewhere between 45,000 and 60,000 orang-utans as recently as 1987.

But by 2001 that number had fallen by virtually half, to an estimated 25,000- 30,000 of the animals, more than half of them living outside protected areas.” —BBC