Climate-induced landslides kill 7% of Tapanuli orangutan population
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Tapanuli orangutans
North Sumatra, Indonesia
November 2025
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Author: Elizabeth Kolbert
This Pulitzer Prize-winning book provides a comprehensive look at how human activity, including climate change, is driving a mass extinction event, offering the necessary scientific context to understand why the loss of even a small population of a rare species like the Tapanuli orangutan is a critical ecological warning.
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