Indonesia floods were extinction level disturbance for rare orangutan species

Conservationists fear up to 11% of Tapanuli population perished in disaster that also killed 1,000 peopleIndonesias deadly flooding was an extinction-level disturbance for the worlds rarest great ape, the Tapanuli orangutan, causing catastrophic damage to its habitat and survival prospects, scientists warned on Friday.Only scientifically classified as a species in 2017, Tapanulis are incredibly rare, with fewer than 800 left in the wild, confined to a small range in part of Indonesias Sumatra.