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WWF Malaysia 
Jan 21, 2022 
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As a science-based organisation with decades of experience in orangutan conservation work, WWF-Malaysia believes that it is our duty to provide accurate and factual information about these primates as part of our ongoing educational efforts.
Orangutans are not hunters and do not have a ‘predatory’ attack mode. As such, it is very unlikely for a wild orangutan to want to climb down from a tree, just to get close to human beings and attack them.
In 1973, Borneo was home to an estimated 288,500 orangutans. By 2016, their numbers had dropped by almost two-thirds, to 104,700. The orangutan face threats in the form of conversion of forests for agriculture, mining and settlement, fragmentation, and are vulnerable to threats of forest fires.
To date, there is an estimated number of 13,000 orangutans in the wild in Sabah and Sarawak, collectively. These numbers are considered stable and are believed to remain so, provided good forest and conservation management practices continue to be put in place. This is in line with the government’s policy of maintaining 50% forest cover that provides the habitat for orangutan conservation.
Learn more: https://www.wwf.org.my/?29965/Sustainable-Palm-Oil-and-Orangutan-Conservation-Can-Go-Hand-in-Hand
Photo (c) naturepl.com / Eric Baccega
As a science-based organisation with decades of experience in orangutan conservation work, WWF-Malaysia believes that it is our duty to provide accurate and factual information about these primates as part of our ongoing educational efforts.
Orangutans are not hunters and do not have a ‘predatory’ attack mode. As such, it is very unlikely for a wild orangutan to want to climb down from a tree, just to get close to human beings and attack them.
In 1973, Borneo was home to an estimated 288,500 orangutans. By 2016, their numbers had dropped by almost two-thirds, to 104,700. The orangutan face threats in the form of conversion of forests for agriculture, mining and settlement, fragmentation, and are vulnerable to threats of forest fires.
To date, there is an estimated number of 13,000 orangutans in the wild in Sabah and Sarawak, collectively. These numbers are considered stable and are believed to remain so, provided good forest and conservation management practices continue to be put in place. This is in line with the government’s policy of maintaining 50% forest cover that provides the habitat for orangutan conservation.
Learn more: https://www.wwf.org.my/?29965/Sustainable-Palm-Oil-and-Orangutan-Conservation-Can-Go-Hand-in-Hand
Photo (c) naturepl.com / Eric Baccega
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