Biofuel boom endangers orangutan habitat
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 10:49
in Biology & Nature
Palm oil plantations are encroaching on rain forest reserves on the Indonesia island of Borneo, where the endangered primates live. In the rush to feed the world's growing appetite for climate-friendly fuel and cooking oil that doesn't clog arteries, the Bornean orangutan could get plowed over.