Island's orangutan population drops by 1,50,000 in 16 years
A report by conservationists has revealed that human activities caused orangutan population in Borneo to decline by 1,50,000 from 1999-2015. The island, politically divided between Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei, saw the most losses in regions where forests were cleared for agriculture. Orangutans were declared "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2016.