"For orangutans, even a road through forest can split habitat and isolate populations. For elephants, shrinking habitat often leads to crop raids, fear, retaliation, and losses on both sides."
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Critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan population falls after heavy rain and landslides, fuelled by climate crisis, in North Sumatra
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"Borneo Futures researchers managed to conduct occupancy analysis, or statistical analysis to determine whether a species is present or absent in a specific location, of 30 individual species, including the Bornean orangutan."
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Critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan population falls after heavy rain and landslides, fuelled by climate crisis, in North Sumatra
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NEW: An estimated 7% of the entire population of the critically-endangered Tapanuli Orangutan were killed in a single weather event, according to research led by Borneo Futures with @frediotto.bsky.social as an author.
An estimated 58 Orangutans were killed by landslides during Cyclone Senyar (1/4)
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The scientists analysed satellite evidence of landslide scars in the West Block of the Batang Toru Ecosystem, home to the largest population of the apes.
They concluded that around 58 Tapanuli orangutans died due to the landslides - about 7% of the estimated remaining population in the wild.
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Climate change-fuelled landslides push rarest great ape closer to extinction
About 7% of the entire population of the world’s rarest great ape are estimated to have been killed by landslides in a storm that was worsened by climate change, a new study has found 🧵
Scientists analysed the impact of Cyclone Senyar on Indonesia's critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans.
They found that the storm’s extreme rainfall in November 2025 resulted in landslides that delivered a severe demographic shock to a species already on the brink of extinction.
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment
Explore the Kalimantan rainforest of Borneo, Indonesia, through the ears of Dr Eddie Game, an environmental scientist using bioacoustic monitoring to save this biodiverse ecosystem. Join the team as t...
