THE WORLD’S RAREST GREAT APE IS WORSE OFF THAN WE THOUGHT

When scientists identified the Tapanuli orangutan as its own species in 2017, it immediately became the world’s rarest great ape. A survey suggested there were fewer than 800 remaining.

Inside Climate News reports that when scientists identified the Tapanuli orangutan as its own species in 2017, it immediately became the world’s rarest great ape.

The report adds: A survey suggested there were fewer than 800 remaining.

The animals had already been pushed into a forbidding mountainous territory about the size of Los Angeles in northern Sumatra, and were hemmed in by human […]

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