{"id":5977,"date":"2016-07-08T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:43:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:43:48","slug":"orangutan-news-bornean-orangutan-declared-critically-endangered-as-forests-shrink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/orangutan-news-bornean-orangutan-declared-critically-endangered-as-forests-shrink\/","title":{"rendered":"Orangutan News: Bornean Orangutan Declared \u2018Critically Endangered\u2019 As Forests Shrink"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5978\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5978\" src=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0-Bornean-Orangutan-in-Sabangau_Bernat-Ripoll_OuTrop.jpg\" alt=\"A Bornean Orangutan in Sabangau Forest, Indonesia. Photo by Bernat Ripoll Capilla courtesy of OuTrop\" width=\"550\" height=\"384\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bornean Orangutan in Sabangau Forest, Indonesia. Photo by Bernat Ripoll Capilla courtesy of OuTrop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>by Loren Bell for Mongabay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bornean orangutan (<i>Pongo pygmaeus<\/i>) is now critically endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This change means that both species of orangutan now face an \u201cextremely high risk of extinction in the wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is full acknowledgement of what has been clear for a long time: orangutan conservation is failing,\u201d Andrew Marshall, one of the authors of the assessment, told Mongabay. Regardless of any positive outcomes of past conservation efforts, they have not achieved the only meaningful goal: a stable or increasing population.<\/p>\n<p>Published this week, the new IUCN assessment finds that hunting, habitat destruction, habitat degradation and fragmentation are the biggest drivers behind the population loss.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, only 59.6% of Borneo\u2019s forests were suitable for orangutans. And, while much of this land is technically protected by the Indonesian, Malaysian and Brunei governments, illegal logging and uncontrolled burning are still continual threats.<\/p>\n<p><em>This excerpt from a news article appeared in and is courtesy of Mongabay.com and can be viewed in its entirety <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2016\/07\/bornean-orangutan-declared-critically-endangered-as-forests-shrink\/\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Loren Bell for Mongabay The Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is now critically endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). 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