Erik Meijaard: Credit Running Out for the ‘Orang Outang’ As we...

By Unknown - Monday, 18 January 2016 No Comments

Erik Meijaard: Credit Running Out for the ‘Orang Outang’

As we speak, the Bornean orangutan is being declared Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Basically that means that we expect it to go extinct in the wild in the near future unless something radical is done to prevent that. There is only one species who can do that radical thing, and that is us, Homo sapiens.