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On average, 2,000 to 3,000 orangutans are killed every year. While exact orangutan population counts are always a challenge – estimates put current counts between 50,000-65,000 orangutans left in the wild.
At this rate of loss, many experts believe orangutans could be extinct in the wild in less than 50 years.
Never before has their very existence been threatened so severely. Economic crisis combined with natural disasters and human abuse of the forest are pushing one of humankind’s closest cousins to extinction.
The main threats in today to the survival of orangutans
Loss of habitat through deforestation
Palm oil plantations
Illegal hunting
Illegal pet trade
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