An aerial view of land cleared as a staging area for the building of a new hydroelectric dam in the Batang Toru rainforest, the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, on Sumatra island. Photo: AFP An aerial view of land cleared as a staging area for the building of a new hydroelectric dam in the Batang Toru rainforest, the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, on Sumatra island. Photo: AFP
An aerial view of land cleared as a staging area for the building of a new hydroelectric dam in the Batang Toru rainforest, the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, on Sumatra island. Photo: AFP
Conservation
Asia /  Southeast Asia

China-backed dam in Indonesia rainforest to cut through home of world’s rarest orangutan

● Dam site is the only known habitat of orangutan species that numbers about 800

● Sinohydro, which built Three Gorges Dam, awarded design and construction contract

Topic |   Conservation
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse

Updated: 12:27pm, 21 Oct, 2018

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An aerial view of land cleared as a staging area for the building of a new hydroelectric dam in the Batang Toru rainforest, the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, on Sumatra island. Photo: AFP An aerial view of land cleared as a staging area for the building of a new hydroelectric dam in the Batang Toru rainforest, the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, on Sumatra island. Photo: AFP
An aerial view of land cleared as a staging area for the building of a new hydroelectric dam in the Batang Toru rainforest, the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, on Sumatra island. Photo: AFP
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