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
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
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Conservation
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