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40% of Lowland Forests in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo Cleared in 15 Years


Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, animals, habitat, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, destruction, world, protection, humans )

Cal
- 17 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Seventy percent of deforestation was concentrated in Sumatra and Borneo, the only islands that still house native orangutan populations.
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Chris Otahal (444)
Tuesday November 10, 2009, 10:49 pm
Distressing news ... hopefully we can find a way to turn this around...
 

Alejandra V. (98)
Tuesday November 10, 2009, 10:55 pm
This is a tragedy. TY anyway, Cal...
 

mary f. (74)
Wednesday November 11, 2009, 12:31 am
what a disaster
 

Julie van Niekerk (134)
Wednesday November 11, 2009, 2:17 am
Nowadays it is just TAKE and TAKE, what about GIVE in return.
 
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