via Hanns-Jörg Rohwedder

via Hanns-Jörg Rohwedder

Originally shared by Environmental Investigation Agency

BREAKING: Indonesia national park with largest orangutan population being cleared for palmoil and illegally logged

Sebangau National Park in Indonesia – home to more than 5,800 critically endangered Bornean orangutans and the biggest protected peatland in Central Kalimantan – is suffering encroachment which is destroying its forest and peatland, as revealed in the latest report with our Indonesian partner the Independent Forest Monitoring Network (aka JPIK).

Documented in 'The Loss of Our Forest and Peatland', JPIK’s monitoring of the park from 2016-18 found areas being cleared and planted with oil palm and illegal logging occurring to supply local timber industries.

... The park contains the largest single population of Bornean orangutans, but forest loss has forced the orangutans to build their nests in the oil palm plantations.

Source: https://eia-international.org/national-park-with-large-orangutan-population-being-cleared-for-palm-oil-and-illegally-logged/

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