Rarest great ape: Fewer than 800 individuals remain across three tentatively connected sub-populations in a small mountainous region on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.
A recently published study estimates that the Tapanuli orang utan only retains 2.5% of the range it occupied 130 years ago.
This new insight means that the species is in even more trouble than previously thought.
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