Orangutans and their caretaker at Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, Sabah, Malaysia in October 2013. Orangutan populations in forest patches found in oil palm estates in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah have fallen as much as 30 percent in 15 years, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

First published in the August 01, 2019, 8:34 p.m. edition

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