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Multiple threats endanger the world’s rarest great ape, a new study on the Tapanuli orangutan reveals
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The Tapanuli orangutan, the world's rarest great ape, faces mounting threats from multiple simultaneous pressures, including extractive industries, logging, agricultural expansion, and climate-related disasters, according to a new study. Fewer than 800 individuals remain, and researchers warn that the combination of these overlapping threats makes conservation efforts increasingly urgent and complex.
Impact of climate change may be equivalent to 3.3 million years of transformations in tropical vegetation
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A new study warns that climate change could compress 3.3 million years of natural vegetation transformation into just decades. Tropical plant communities, which evolved slowly over millennia, may be forced to shift rapidly, disrupting ecosystems. Researchers say this unprecedented pace leaves little time for adaptation, threatening biodiversity, carbon storage, and the stability of tropical regions globally.