Headlines screaming ''ethnic cleansing,'' ''massacre,'' and ''head hunting'' make it easy to overlook the impact civil unrest is having on animal populations in Indonesia.
The ongoing fighting and political instability provide a textbook case of human activities leading directly to the extinction of a species, warns a study released by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which appears in the current issue of the journal Oryx.
Orangutans will be extinct in the wild less than ten years unless conditions are reversed immediately. At present, all remaining forests that are accessible by road river are subject to a seemingly unstoppable pandemic of illegal logging, regardless of their protection status.
The ongoing fighting and political instability provide a textbook case of human activities leading directly to the extinction of a species, warns a study released by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which appears in the current issue of the journal Oryx.
Orangutans will be extinct in the wild less than ten years unless conditions are reversed immediately. At present, all remaining forests that are accessible by road river are subject to a seemingly unstoppable pandemic of illegal logging, regardless of their protection status.
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