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Orang-utan: going… going… almost gone!

Orang-utan conservation

This is a feature about the conservation of the orang-utan that I originally wrote for “Wild Ireland” magazine back in 2003. Ten years on and the great red ape is still hanging on, barely. We stopped and stared. Ninety kilos of muscle, sinew and dense orange fur stared back. With….